The Düsing family of Staven, Sponholz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz

A cousin of my husband whose family has lived in Sweden for several generations spotted Johanne Sophia Düsing in his tree on ancestry. They are sharing 3x great grandparents Johann Adolf  Düsing and Regina Germer who lived at Staven at the time of the birth of most of their children with Johanna thought to be the eldest by the researcher who helped Edward with these records but she was actually the second daughter. She descends from Johanna's only brother Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Düsing who was six years younger. Heinrich went to Sweden with his wife and two young children. 

Genealogy does show how small the world really is. Edward's great grandparents came from Mecklenburg-Strelitz, his great grandmother in 1849 with her mother and sister to join her brothers in the Niagara area (Canadian side of border) and his great grandfather arrived in 1866 in Brant County. I will let Edward's Schultz cousins know as several of them are interested in their family roots in Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Getting organized

 My first organization point it to remember to publish these blogs from my account. We are down to 15 Research boxes which do not fit into the closet so will do a little work on them to see if I can put the contents of some of them in the remaining bookcase in the research room. Then the rest will have to sit under the computer table and remain in the closet where they now are. But gradually we are getting items organized so that we can begin to work.

Edward's Research Room

Edward's Research Room is now set up although we continue to add the boxed material but it is a slow process to catalogue each box and find a spot for it. I hope to begin looking at material this month probably towards the end of the month. One area of the room includes his mother's Hope Chest going to her oldest grandchild and other material going to the Schultz family (Edward's paternal grandmother was a Schultz). That will free up quite a bit of space for research boxes this fall perhaps. 

There are fourty plus binders of family photographs and other items. We will downsize those family albums so that they only contain family pictures. A couple of the albums are from trips that were planned and prepared by Edward and George Anderson and I will see if I can pass them on to the United Empire Loyalists via George Anderson. Our pictures from 1965 to 2001 were all printed but from 2001 to the present all family pictures are digital. 

We have started to log the boxes and in general there is a lot of work ahead going through those boxes and putting relevant material online through this blog. 

The month of August

 The month of August will see time spent organizing all of Edward\s research boxes so that I can work on them in a more organized fashion. They will be centralized in one room which will be very helpful.