Wandering Around The Family Tree

                      I ’ve been researching my great-grandfather Hans Christensen’s and his siblings’ immigration from Denmark to the United States. Hans, the oldest, was the first to arrive in New York on 6 August 1890 on the Devonia. [1]     The next to arrive in New York were his brother Christen, his sister Maren Kristina, and her husband Hans Frederik Adelholdt Jensen on 29 May 1891 on the Hekla . [2]  However, I could not find an immigration record for his sister Cecelie (1877-1931). All I knew was that she had to have arrived before 24 November 1895 when she married Hans Christensen in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. [3]                     I finally found her traveling to New York in 1894. On 14 February 1894, Cecelie Christensen, age 17 of Radsted, Maribo, was interv...

  I recently received a set of recipe cards from a cousin that were written by out grandmother Evelyn Clara (Call) Hankins, probably between 1920 (when she married) and 1962 (when she died). My grandmother was born in Wichita, Sedgewick, Kansas in 1895. Within a few months of her birth, the family moved back to Stafford, Genesee County, New York where her parents, Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) were born. Evelyn lived in Stafford on the family farm until she left for college, first at Northwestern University in Chicago and then at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from Cornell in 1919 with a degree in Home Economics. After graduating, she worked for a year at Wells College in Aurora, Cayuga, New York, possibly as the Superintendent of a Dormitory, as a housekeeper or as a teacher. She married my grandfather, Francis William Hankins (1897-1963) in 1920 at her parents home in Stafford. Beginning in the 1930s, my grandmother ran t...