It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1) Who is your current favorite ancestor to research and why? [Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting topics!] 2) Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note. Here’s mine: My current favorite ancestor is my great-grandfather, Johan Anton Hork’s brother, Albert M. Hork. He was his younger brother, born ten years later in Oberhundem, Westfalen in 1853. [1] I am fortunate that much of what I know about Albert is through newspaper articles. He was a Roman Catholic priest, who was ordained on 7 June 1884 in Malines, Belgium. [2] Prior to that, he had studied in Milwaukee at the St. Francis de Sales Seminary in 1876. [3] Likely he learned English there, though he may have studied some before coming to America. He made his intention to naturalize in Lee County, Iowa in 1877 and was natur
Researching: Davey, Gleeson, Gorrell, Hork, Hutson, Johnston, Jones, Lundquist, Nilsen, Selman, Sievert, Sullivan, Tierney, & Wollenweber.