This section collects family history, old photographs, genealogical research, and stories connected with the people and places in my family tree. Some entries will be straightforward records; others will be attempts to identify photographs, resolve uncertain relationships, or document family stories before they are lost.
My father, Bryan C. Bruemmer, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a transport pilot. I preserved his personal separation documents, training records, and pilot log, which was fortunate since his file was probably among the Army records destroyed by…
A scan of this image was the first direct encounter that I had with AI. I had asked ChatGPT to date the image (it guessed 1887) based on some additional data that I was able to supply. After a bit more information, it declared: With…
Orsamus Hodgkins was born in Reading, VT in 1798 and married Eunice Shattuck in 1818 in Belvidere, VT, a small, rural town in the northern part of the state. Thus began a lineage of three more Orsamuses (Orsami?) ending with my grandfather, who went by…