Genealogy Jottings

Last year I spent my research time on my Norwegian family. At the end of the year, I had enough information to do a nice biographical sketch of my great-grandparents, Sofie and Ole Bentsen. I have done similar sketches of other great-grandparents in previous years, including Laura Riddle and Anna Petronellia Sherman. Among those I still need to do is my paternal great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed. He had what the cousins call “that Reed wanderlust”, and he traveled around a lot. I have many gaps in his timeline, and his Civil War service remains undocumented. Even his name is a puzzle because he was the oldest son yet not named for any family member that I can identify. Yet both he and a cousin were named “Samuel Harvey”, so who was the original Samuel Harvey? This year I plan to focus my research efforts on my Samuel and the Reed line. This guy will be tough!

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