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Seeking Lydia
One to look forward to!
One to look forward to!
Seeking Lydia is a multi-generational saga about strong women overcoming obstacles, facing themselves in grief and loss of faith, and discovering what they are truly made of.
Four generations of my family came together to survive against all odds and create inseparable bonds. This is their story.
One to look forward to!
One to look forward to!
One to look forward to!
Seeking Anna follows Seeking Lydia. It is the story of three of my ancestors who migrated from their homeland, Sweden. They experienced the grief of separation from loved ones, and the hardships and the joys of forging of new lives and legacies in a new land.
Seeking Home!
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Seeking Santiago!
This tale allows us to follow young orphan Tom from the North to the South behind Sherman as he leads his Federal troops through rebel territory. Tom, my great-great-grandfather, will cross paths with my father's ancestors as he traverses their land in his struggle to stay alive so he can return to Iowa, where the embrace of happy memories will welcome him home.
Seeking Santiago!
One to look forward to!
Seeking Santiago!
Traversing the world, these proud people leave a land of conflict and hardship and work their way toward a land of opportunity, losing much as they go, but gaining a future of promise for their children and generations beyond.