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Started by Alex Moes on Saturday, April 11, 2020
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After two years I am raising the white flag and surrendering on the project i started in January 2018 https://www.geni.com/projects/Easy-Company-a-Band-of-Brothers/46452

I started with a list of 377 paratroopers who served with E Company and since then I have been thru the entire list twice looking for obituaries, gravestones, enlistment records, memorials, family trees and census data to match these American men born in the early 1900s. In doing so I've created or expanded on 281 trees on Geni, my goal in each case has been to either connect these men's trees to Geni's World Family Tree or to try to reach a tree size of at least 50 profiles in hopes that this will give them a good chance of being connected at some point in the future.

I've had a bit of help along the way and have actually been contacted by several veteran's children and one of the associations which has been nice but now I am at the end of what I can do alone and need help if the project is to expand any further.

Please spread the word.

PS I am going to post this message in several places so sorry if you get spammed a bit :)

Sadly, I do not know much about E Company and the men who served with E Company, but I would like to help with building or expanding the tree for the members of Easy who are of Norwegian descent; as that is something that I feel that I can help with, since I do Norwegian genealogy.

If it is okay with you, I would like to help with building and expanding the Norwegian side of @Major General Salve Hugo Matheson family tree. His mother @Elsa Maria Matheson was from Sweden, so it would likely be better to enlist the help of someone who can navigate the Digital Archives in Sweden and/or the National Archives of Sweden as well as somone who commands the Swedish language. Something that I feel that I don't, unfortunately.

Burton Paul Christenson is also most likely to be of Scandinavian descent, since his parents' surname Christensen (which is also a patronymic; meaning "[the] son of Christen") is of Scandinavian origin. So his ancestors are most probably from either Norway or Denmark, or both.

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