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Diane Johnsen - Experienced Genealogy Research Consultant
I am quite passionate about my own history and the history of others. I am an avid researcher and am able to undertake research from many different and varied historical sources in order that I might uncover your family history.
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I became interested in family history when we moved across the street from a family of Mormons. They showed me all of the information they had compiled and they also were volunteers at the Family History Center, where they took me for a tour. Later I also became a volunteer. I was hooked. When I started this search, I had no idea who any of my ancestors were.
Luckily one grandmother was still alive and I asked her some questions and got information on towns in the United States where some of them had lived.
My father was very closed mouthed about anything having to do with family history but I wore him down and was able to find a little more information. Come to find out, he didn't know all that much. I was able to contact some of his cousins who had little bits of information here and there.
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I was able to find information in Winona County, Minnesota thanks to a family member related to my great-grand father's brother, who was also interested in family history. We worked together for a long time, she helped me, I helped her.
Information started pouring in so fast, I had a hard time keeping up. From Winona County, the search went to Wisconsin, North and South Dakota and then to Germany. I consider myself very lucky because I stumbled across a wonderful man, in Germany, whose family was related to Christian Volkmann's first wife, Maria Frank.
I had been reading the old German records and knew Christian had been married to Maria but did not know they had been divorced. This man gave me so much information, it was overwhelming. The point to this story is, try every lead you can find because you never know who could be sitting on a goldmine of information.
I started with one binder and very carefully entered anything that had the slightest significance to my search. I was so glad I had done this because later on, it all added up. It took awhile to work up from that one binder but later I was breaking families up, putting them in their own binder.
As the years went by, I had the entire church records for births, marriages, and deaths in Robe transcribed and put into three large binders. Soon after I had the entire church records for Treibs transcribed and put into three large binders.
I have almost of all my information in these binders as well as on CD. I've gotten so much information, I've run out of room for binders and have been putting some families in manilia envelopes.
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