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  • Thank You for a Wonderful 2011! Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, & Seasons Greetings Thank you for a wonderful 2011 with 43 programs to 1,302 people and the continued sales of my book.Jeff 
    Posted Dec 26, 2011 12:26 PM by Jeffrey Bockman
  • Is-sur-Tille coming to Naperville Christian Baujard, the editor of Is-sur-Tille's blog and bulletin, the Is ci et là, is coming to visit us in Naperville along with his wife. They will have the opportunity to meet my 91 year old mother, the only surviving child of John G. Stevenson who was stationed at Camp Williams during WWI. An article about my May 2011 visit to the camp was just published in latest issue of the bulletin, http://www.is-sur-tille.fr/bulletin/Iscietla_46.pdf. See page 20 
    Posted Oct 13, 2011 5:47 PM by Jeffrey Bockman
  • Connecting With My Grandfather - 2011 trip to France New article in Genealogy According to Jeff. During May of 2011 my wife and I traveled to France to visit one of the areas where my maternal grandfather was stationed in World War I. The 90 plus letters that he sent home while stationed oversees not only provided information about the locations and activities but it also gave us an insight into him as a person. It is from having his letters that I have been encouraging people to record their own stories and their family history. While there was no "genealogical research" done on this trip it was researching my family's history while making some of our own.  
    Posted Aug 16, 2011 10:08 PM by Jeffrey Bockman
  • Norway - Best web sites on the Net Norway research article has been added to Genealogy According to Jeff. This was part of The Best Scandinavian Sites on the Net article originally published in Everton's Genealogical Helper January/February 2009.   see: www.JeffBockman.com/gatj/norway
    Posted Jul 25, 2011 8:58 PM by Jeffrey Bockman
  • Everyday is Memorial Day in Is-sur-Tille Naperville author discovers grandfather’s words during trip to France My article about our visit to Is-sur-Tille was published in the Naperville Sun - Friday 17 June   Every town in France has a monument to the fallen soldiers in both the first and second world wars. The one in the center of Is-sur-Tille in the Cote d’Or department of Burgundy, France, is unique in that it also includes a list of the 238 U.S. soldiers and workers who died in the hospital at Camp Williams, which was a gigantic supply camp there. Several years ago, the names of the Americans were so worn that they could not be read, so a new list of the ...
    Posted Jun 17, 2011 6:51 AM by Jeffrey Bockman
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