Ryan's completed project
Back in September, I wrote about a heritage project that was assigned in my son's American History class. The project is now complete (okay, it was shown a couple weeks ago, I've just had so many other things going on that I couldn't scrape together a block of time large enough to retouch the photo and post it here), and Ryan has a better idea of how one branch of our family migrated from Switzerland through Alsace-Lorraine to Indiana. Here he is with his completed project and a few other students' projects around it...
Ryan chose to further examine the time that our family spent in France. The seated woman in the photograph (just to the right of Ryan's shoulder) is Anna Klopfenstein Shanebeck who was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1834 and died at age 97 in Allen County, Indiana; the article including the photograph is a copy of her obituary. You can expect to see more about her in future posts.
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There stands our next generation of family historians! Congrats, great photo, great story, congrats to Ryan!! (And his dad!)
Anna Klopfenstein Shanebeck is my husband's great-great grandmother. I would be interested in a copy of her photo that is in Ryan's project. If that is possible, you can contact me at kbergdall@msn.com. Be sure to put something in the subject line that will identify you so it doesn't get deleted as junk mail. Thanks! Kathy Bergdall
P.S. Great that you are interested in your past history, Ryan!
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