Prologue Four life-long friends from Des Moine Iowa gathered in 1974 for old times’ sake and to recite poetry. Hear their voices restored from an…

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…

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 (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…

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…

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…

I have nearly exhausted all the free genealogy sites plus my paid membership at newspapers dot com. I’ll use the resources of ancestry dot com…

I wrote about Poppy earning $2,700 per year. That amounts to $70,000 in 2021 dollars. Not bad for someone who dropped out of school after…