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Monthly Archives: March 2016

BF5: William Burger was my G-Grandfather

March 25, 2016

William Burger, son of Jacob, was four years old when his father left him, his sister, and mother in Germany …

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BF4: Generations Farming the Land

March 7, 2016

In the spring of 1958 I was in the front 40 on my father’s new Oliver Super 77 plowing the …

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BF3: From Cincinnati, Ohio, to Dubois County, Indiana

March 2, 2016

My G-G-Grandfather Jacob Burger was a watchmaker who wanted to be a landowner and farmer. After establishing an apparently successful …

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