On Dec 3, 2024, at 00:17, Elisa B. wrote: Hello Jan, My name is Elisa and I ran across your website (from 2003) on the Hardenbergh family a few days ago. This was while I was doing my own genealogical research into my great-grandfather's mother and siblings who settled in Minnesota in the late 1880s. One his siblings was Louise (born: Legas), who married your ancestor, Frederick Hardenbergh. I could not have been more delighted to find your site and read all about the Hardenbergh family. But I was moved significantly to find so many candid photos of my great-grand aunt Louise, there together with her husband and in-laws. For your reference, I am attaching a photograph of Louise from 1889, which I recently inherited. I am curious if you now have a newer site or more up to date information? And if I could ask whether you might know more information regarding her family, based on your genealogical research? Thank you for sharing such a wealth of information and detail online! Elisa Bowling (Atlanta, Georgia) <1889 Louise Legas Hardenbergh Legrand Martinet Album Scans a.jpg> ---------------- YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh <> jch.com <> 978-273-4949 Haidt's Happiness Hypothesis: We need Love and Attachments, Gratifying Work, and a Connection to Something Larger. On Dec 4, 2024, at 16:16, Elisa B. wrote: Dear Jan, Marylee and Chalmers, Thank you so much for your enthusiastic replies! It is so rewarding to meet people who appreciate genealogy as much as I do... and what a gift that you are connected through the family tree! I am equally surprised to hear that Louise (and Fred) were Christian Scientists, given the Legas's french/catholic ancestry! What a great discovery - and something new to study about. A tiny bit about Louise and her family for your enjoyment: - Louise was the younger, half sister, of my great-grandfather, Eugene Legrand. - Eugene was the natural son of Heloise Josephine Legrand [how our family spells it]. - Heloise married Louise's father, Louis Legas (full name: Anne Louis Marguerite Legas), only 6 months or so after Eugene was born... All together, they had 4 children together. One died as a child. - My great-grandfather Eugene was born, raised and married twice in Paris, France. His second wife [1907]is my great-grandmother, Elisa Martinet Legrand. - Eugene was a baker in Paris and owned several bakeries until about 19:10 at which time he and my great grandmother purchased a bakery in Guatemala (Central America) where they immigrated to in 1913 and ran it together in their retirement. - Guatemala is where the branch of my family comes from… but I’ve lived in the US for 40 years. - Louise, her mother Heloise, her sister Felicie and her brother Henri left Paris around 1887, after the death of Louise’s father. - sadly, Heloise and Felicie died tragically when the streamer they were sailing on sank in July 1898. I have been a genealogy fan for 20 years, and just last month, I inherited Eugene and Elisa’s photo albums from one of my aunts. (I now have about 200 photos of theirs from the range of 1890 - 1940). That photo album is where saw the photos of Louise and Fred for the first time ever!! I only knew them by name on my family tree before. Attached is another photo of Fred and Louise for your enjoyment… I assume this must have been taken in 1910 at their home… I hope to keep in touch with you all. Warm regards, Elisa Bowling On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 1:54 PM Marylee Hardenbergh wrote: Yes, how lovely to read these emails! Interesting that Louise was, according to my brother Chalmers, a devoted Christian Scientist!! And. yes, Jan, how amazing the megabytes have grown unbelievably over the last 20 years!! Marylee Hardenbergh On Dec 3, 2024, at 12:45 PM, YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh wrote: Such a fun message to receive about "Uncle Fred” & Louise. He was my grandfather’s older brother, named for his grandfather Frederick. I will add your picture of Louise and story to this page of portrait cards - http://www.hardenbergh.org/photos/wayzata/oldcards/index.htm It’s a 22 year old web page. Back then I thought 800x1400 & 1/2 MB was as large as anyone would want. You could only fit 100 or so of those pictures on a CD-ROM. There is a genealogy book, too. It is about 25MB, which used to be large. jch.com/temp/miller.pdf I’m attaching the snippet for Fred & Louise. If you had the tools to create a simple HTML webpage for Fred & Louse, I could add it to hardenbergh.org. Below is a note from my brother who is a bit older with a better memory of the 50’s On Dec 3, 2024, at 11:52, Chalmersh wrote: Ach! A wonderful tale. They were parents of Helen Hardenbergh and Raymond (I met his wife, he painted abandoned towns out West), and I have the adoption papers of him. Louise was a firm Christian Scientist as was Fred. I have somewhere a long letter from Collis who attended Fred’s service in maybe 1938? [jch: 1941] I got the papers from a relative of Louise - perhaps her cousin? He lived west of Chicago. ———— On Dec 3, 2024, at 00:17, Elisa B. wrote: Hello Jan, My name is Elisa and I ran across your website (from 2003) on the Hardenbergh family a few days ago. This was while I was doing my own genealogical research into my great-grandfather's mother and siblings who settled in Minnesota in the late 1880s. One his siblings was Louise (born: Legas), who married your ancestor, Frederick Hardenbergh. I could not have been more delighted to find your site and read all about the Hardenbergh family. But I was moved significantly to find so many candid photos of my great-grand aunt Louise, there together with her husband and in-laws. For your reference, I am attaching a photograph of Louise from 1889, which I recently inherited. I am curious if you now have a newer site or more up to date information? And if I could ask whether you might know more information regarding her family, based on your genealogical research? Thank you for sharing such a wealth of information and detail online! Elisa Bowling (Atlanta, Georgia)