Mildred Dunn, my mom,
with William Dailey, Jr. on Roger, about 1918. Mildred was a great grandchild of both William Dunn and
Will Dailey, both of whom homesteaded in Moody County, D.T. in the late 1870's.
The linked names in the "drop down" menu above are the surnames of my great grandparents as well as some other pages like the "Ships Passenger List" page and the "Census" page. Check the "Site Map" to help you find areas of interest. There are over one hundred pages on this web site. Each surname page is the starting point of several, sometimes many pages, about that family surname. The exceptions are the Barlow, Mallder, and Marriage families about which I know very little. There is a search engine installed at the bottom of the page to help you navigate the site.
Most of what you will see here is documented by primary sources such as wills, NARA Land Entry Case Files, census, birth, marriage and death certificates plus obituaries and local publications. There are presently three sets of "Land Entry Case Files" on this site, John Dunn, William Dunn, and Levi Newton Bushnell. Levi's is the most complete with 25 separate documents and the best job of scanning. The pages are quite legible.
When I read about how the early settlers lived it just overwhelms me how badly they wanted it. Levi Bushnell described his house in his "proving-up" as "Frame - 12 x 20 feet - shingle roof - addition - 8 x 10 feet - sided and sodded up on the outside and papered on the inside, 3 rooms, 2 doors, 2 windows..." and in this building the size of a single garage a man and his wife and seven children lived. The description was given at the time of "proving up" in September of 1889. By July of 1893 Levi was dead at 54 years of age and within ten years three of his seven children would be dead from TB. I've been told there were many TB deaths because of living in smoky, poorly ventilated lodging.
In the case of George Eleazer Bushnell's excellent and extensive research, " Bushnell Family Genealogy..." I credited him as I have neither the time nor resources to duplicate his research. His writing, published after his death, was nearly 35 years in the making and he is fully entitled to the credit.
When you see a link in the text selecting that link will take you to a written record of the event. For example, selecting a "married" link will show you the primary marriage record.
An undertaking like this isn't accomplished alone. Thanks are, of course, due many people who contributed information, photos and moral support. Special thanks to Brian Nodolf of Wisconsin, a Bushnell descendant, without whose help the Bushnell section would never have gotten off the ground, Dave Postma of Michigan, a Schaap descendant who showed the way through the Dutch and gave us a grand tour at Holland, MI, Linda Dahl who helped with the Phillips line and runs an excellent web site of her own about the Bataan death march and prison camp Fukuoka #17 , cousin Lyn Ryan Johnson [Linda passed away 02 NOV 2004. Though we never met I miss her enormously.] who really gave me a start and continuing support on the Dunn side, Denis Dailey of St. Paul, who, of course, really knows the Dailey line and, not the least, Marian Mallder, who got me started on the Mallders. My thanks to you and the many others who helped.
Genealogy, by it's nature is never finished, but is always a work in process. It is my hope that the next generation, Jeff Blinn, Linda Dahl, Matt Dailey, Ellen Jennings, and others I don't even know will pick up where we leave off and continue the project.
If you have questions, comments, or corrections, please, write to me. Bill Phillips.
This site was last updated Sunday, January 14, 2007.
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