When Larry and I find "a little more" about one of the ancestors, especially something COOL, we always wonder if one of their kids' kids' kids' will see it. For sure, we know how exciting it is to discover a connection, and find "Wow, they came from Bohemia, not Germany like I thought" or "I didn't know he fought in the Civil War", or "worked for the railroad", etc. (I don't quite understand why so much of our family history was forgotten, and not passed along proudly, altho if they HAD passed it along, what would Larry and I have done for the past five years?)
Just so you know, our first post on Hesch History was exactly five years ago today, January 18, 2009. YAY, US!
Like a blogiversary gift, we got an email yesterday from David, who recognized his family here on HH. He and I share great-great-grandparents Peter Sand & Angelica Stoltz Sand, he says (I agree). In his case, he didn't know that the Von Sandt family came from Luxembourg. Like us, he thought they came from Germany.
The most fun part of David's discovery tho, is that his great grandfather was Mike Sand's older brother John Peter Sand, deputy sheriff in Little Falls in the 1880s and 90s, and his wife Magdalena Ferschweiler Sand. JP's story has been one of the really fun research subjects on HH. It involved scandal, new laws, a hanging, freeing a prisoner, escaping, a manhunt, horse thieving--and it was all recorded in the newspapers of the time.
David says he previously had no idea who his great grandparents were.
This is just COOL ☺
WELCOME to the family, David!
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