Category: Family Mystery
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The Disappearance of Earl Tobias
On or about Dec 15, 1894 Earl Tobias deserted his wife and their two children in Kansas City, KS. He wrote his wife, stating: “…he had too many mouths to feed and was getting in debt.” Earl then disappeared from all public records. 125+ years later, we found Earl.
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Children of the Plantation – slaves in the family
Have you done a DNA Test? Do your ethnicity results show a small percentage (e.g., 1% to 3%) of Sub Saharan African ancestry, particularly, West Africa: Cameroon, Congo, Bantu, Ivory Coast, Ghana people? If so, you are not alone.
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Lucie Metzdorff and Dewey Baldwin – a whirlwind romance and short-lived marriage
Pvt. Dewey Baldwin and Nurse Lucie Metzdorff married June, 1919 in Luxembourg. They separated upon arrival in NYC in early Aug 1919. Dewey went home to Ironton, OH. Lucie stayed a year in NYC and then went home to Luxembourg. Here is their story.
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William A Bauswell – Fraud Uncovered! – 100+ year old alias with a fake family
I’m sure ‘Buck’ Bauswell never considered that his elaborate 1923 fraud would be unraveled and revealed 100 years after the fact.
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Charles Francis Bull Family – adultery, arrests, prison, exoneration, missing persons, fraud, aliases – the complete story
This is the incredibly complicated, multi-layered, almost implausible story of a San Francisco family at the turn of the 20th century.
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Bruce Brynolf Bogren – a police cold case?
Bruce Bogren, about 1960, abandoned his family and disappeared. How can someone in this modern age of computerised location records, completely disappear?
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Toeneboehn Immigration Story – overland by wagon train
Family lore is that the Toeneboehn’s / Tonebon’s traveled from New Orleans to Minnesota to join a wagon train. The wagon train was ambushed by Indians resulting in the deaths of some family members.
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Where is Anderson Hunt Buried? – is this a cold case?
Anderson Hunt III of Lawrence County, Ohio, a prominent local citizen with multiple wives and numerous children, vanished without a trace in 1907. Coincidentally, his widowed wife Anna relocated in the summer of 1907 to Tacoma, WA along with her two daughters and their families, prompting speculation about his unrecorded death and missing burial.
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Where is Charles Robinson Buried? – the search for Bundy’s Mound
Based on an 1871 obituary, we know that Charles Robinson was buried at the base of Bundy’s Mound, in Wilson County, Kansas. But, where is Bundy’s Mound?
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