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Snippets for Aunt Sharon: The Kellings and the Founding of St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church

St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, Sheffield, Lorain Co., Ohio.   Last fall I wrote about a discovery I made while doing some research for my Aunt Sharon: her great-great-grandfather Bruno Albaugh was one of Lincoln's bodyguards ! I had several other great discoveries about her family that I've been anxious to share. This week's post profiles her Kelling ancestors' connection to a church founding in Ohio. St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church was organized in 1845 by German settlers to Sheffield, Lorain County, Ohio. Among the founding families of the church were my aunt's second great-grandparents, Johan Kelling , and his wife, Katharina Schuber . The book,  History of Lorain County, Ohio , published in 1879, includes these notes on the church founding: “St. Theresa Church (Catholic), organized in 1845 by Rev. Peter Griesh, with the following membership (other member names)… John Kelling and his wife Catharine . At the organization of the church, each member paid o...
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Behind the Stories: A Peek Behind the Research Curtain

Do you want to peek behind the genealogical curtain? 1

Have you ever wondered how I come up with information for my blog posts? It should come as no surprise that the stories all flow from research discoveries.

Genealogical research can be as simple as ordering a vital record, like a birth or death record. Or, it can be as complicated as researching multiple generations of a family line for a lineage society, or looking deeply at a person or event—and take several months to complete.

The constant in all my research? I invariably find many interesting stories along the way to answering a specific research question, and these stories beg to be told.

I recently focused on my Croatian great grandmother for a two-part blog series. The information I uncovered was the product of the "Research Like a Pro," research process I use, created by genealogists/podcasters Diana Shults Elder and Nicole Dyer. They kindly asked me to write about my project for their FamilyLocket blog.

So, if you'd like to peek behind my "genealogical curtain," dive into the blog post, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process."2

Until next time...

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NOTES

1 Sir John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland illustration, Project Gutenberg (https://bit.ly/2JNrG8s: accessed 6 April 2020). This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net.

2 Diana Elder and Nancy Gilbride Casey, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process." FamilyLocket, 11 March 2020 (https://bit.ly/2JIvbx7 : accessed 6 April 2020).









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