Author: Nicolas Bredimus
Hometown Oakland NJ
Bredimus Family Back East After WW II my father and mother moved their young family from Iowa to a small town in New Jersey. It…
The Siege of Paris
A professional researcher, Denise Gripp from Iowa, recently discovered this 1932 Newspaper article. I’d been searching for it ever since I read the family history…
Des Moines Documents Found
I have recently obtained dozens of pages of Bredimus history with the assistance of a professional Researcher in Iowa (Denise Gripp DBA Ever-After Enterprises). I’ll…
Francois Bredimus Died at Age 43
Francois (Frank) Bredimus was our great-grandfather. I wondered why he died young at the age of 43 and our branch of the family had no…
Luxembourg then and now
If our Bredimus ancestors living in nineteenth-century Luxembourg were well-off, there might not be an American branch of the family. This was my thought when…
Mayme Bredimus became the Mother of her two grandchildren
Mayme Bredimus, who we called “Mommy” cared for her two grandchildren after each lost their own Mother. It was a great tragedy in the Bredimus…
Huge photos of Nancy and Franklin Bredimus
I was told to look for huge photos of Nancy and Franklin in the Des Moines newspapers. “A searching hint……I remember that when I was…
Traveling to the Heartland
The photo of you, Bitsy and Lynn with Grandmother McDonald must have been taken when Mom took you youngest to Missouri. I was left at…
Remembering
Remembering brings the emotions back as well. Our mom (Elsie Bredimus) was a Blackout Warden when we lived in Des Moines. She had to check…
Mother of Mommy
Christina died in 1915 at age 53. The portrait with Mommy was uploaded to Ancestry by Bitsy. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law were both born in…
Marriage License of Dad and Nancy’s Mom
I was delighted to discover the marriage license of Nancy’s parents. It is signed by Robert Leo and Mary Louise. They were married by a…
Otie
Mom called her step-sister Leota “Otie”. Otie’s mother was 11 years older than Emery McDonald, which was not common in those days. Mary Ellen Sprague…
McDannald Ancestors
I agree with you that the name McDonald had different spellings, but usually it happened in different branches of a family or different generations. I’ve…
McDannald
That is not a typo in the subject. Apparently, our family name was McDannald. See the attached 1930 census and the zoom to the lines…
Mommy’s Recipes
These are recipes that Mommy (Mayme Bredimus) gave to Nancy’s mother, Mary Louise. Nancy still has her mother’s recipe box with the handwritten cards. It was…
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