About: Luanne
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- https://thefamilykalamazoo.wordpress.com
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- Writer fascinated by genealogy and family stories. thefamilykalamazoo.com, enteringthepale.com My chapbook Kin Types (poetry based on family history) was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer award.
Posts by Luanne :
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March 9, 2016 Henry Mulder, Great-Grandpa’s Younger Brother
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March 2, 2016 Library Research on That Little House in the Woods
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February 24, 2016 Karel Mulder’s House or Not
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February 21, 2016 Keeping Kalamazoo
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February 17, 2016 My Relatives Tried to Follow in the Footsteps of the Pilgrims
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February 10, 2016 My Dutch Family Almost Arrived In the U.S. Decades Earlier
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February 3, 2016 Did the Leeuwenhoeks Live Here?
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January 27, 2016 Waldeck Family Research
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January 20, 2016 Mulders Everywhere!
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January 13, 2016 The Waldeck Search Begins to Yield a Few Answers
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- Cover photo shows flooding at the Water Works Bridge in Kalamazoo, March 26, 1904. That spring, the water got 6″ higher than the photo shows.
ORDER ERIC HOFFER AWARD FINALIST KIN TYPES: FAMILY HISTORY MEETS LITERATURE


- KALAMAZOO AND SW MICHIGAN: This blog shares the photographs and stories of my mother's family--the DeKorn, Zuidweg, and Mulder families which settled in southwestern Michigan. It also occasionally shares the photographs and stories of my father's family from Chicago and Elmhurst, Illinois. Many of the posts are centered around the locations of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Goes, Zeeland, the Netherlands. *The PAGES listed BELOW tell about this blog and summarize the main family branches appearing on this blog. *The TABS at the TOP of the page are a quick way to find posts related to particular family branches.
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All images from author’s collection © Luanne Castle and The Family Kalamazoo, 2012-2023. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without written permission from this blog’s author is prohibited. The piece can be re-blogged, and excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Luanne Castle and The Family Kalamazoo, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
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