
Michelle (Hartman) Detwiler
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Birth - Michelle is one of 7 children born to Edwin L. Hartman and Martha L. Hossack. Michelle grew up in FL, WA, CA, TX. As a child Michelle often daydreamed of log cabins, Conestoga wagons, and life on the old frontier. An avid reader, American history has always been a favorite. As an adult Michelle learned many of the old ways including, raising sheep, spinning wool, and weaving on an 8 harness loom. In the process of learning she also taught others these wonderful crafts.
Occupation - After graduating from high school Michelle went to college to be a medical assistant. Michelle worked for a short time in that field and then moved to working in the electronics industry. Michelle learned to repair 2-way radios and worked in that field for 10 years.
Family - After having a child with a rare medical disease, Michelle and her husband Jeff decided to offer their home for foster care to medically fragile children. Jeff and Michelle received 1 medically fragile child at a time and cared for them, often teaching the child's family how to care for the child in the process. Out of this 17-years of experience Jeff and Michelle cared for over 35 children. Their two daughters were adopted through the foster care system, one with severe medical and developmental needs, the other with Autism. Their eldest daughter died in 2014.
Religion - Life has been a challenge for the Detwiler's, but God is always in control! The Detwiler's rely heavily on their faith in God in all matters of life.
It all started with... "Your family came across the country to California in a covered wagon." Michelle has been working on family history for many years. Her father's family were all southerners, from VA to NC to TN. Her mother's family were all northerners, PA to OH to IN to KS to CA. Michelle's favorite families to work on are the the Detwiler family, the Hartman family, the Page family, and the Cramer-Axe family.
Michelle's husband's family has been easy and not so easy to work on. Jeff's father's family has been in America since the early 1700's and there is a lot of information on the Detwiler family in PA. Jeff's mother's Schmidt family and their related families immigrated to America mostly in the 1860-1880 time period. They lived in MN. Some of the challenges of this family history research is the different way many of the eastern European names are spelled.
Michelle's favorite historical research time period is around the Revolutionary War era. She loves old documents and after 40+ years of research experience she has learned that family history isn't all wrapped up in census data. There are many secret and not so secret places that family history information can hide!
Recently Michelle started research on African-American Heritage. What a wonderful and challenging experience. It can be very difficult to research the families of enslaved people. After working on several counties in the Alabama area Michelle has expanded her horizons working full-time on Plantations and the Enslaved.
Researching has been a great enjoyment to Michelle. She is occasionally asked, "How did you find that?" So she created a page called Researching the Enslaved, detailing the techniques she uses to research Plantations, Plantation Owners, and the Enslaved.
Family names in Michelle's tree:
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Michelle is 18 degrees from Mary Cassatt, 32 degrees from Salvador Dali, 29 degrees from Théodore Géricault, 28 degrees from Hans Heysen, 28 degrees from Bruno Liljefors, 31 degrees from Margaret Mackintosh, 24 degrees from Charles Porter, 29 degrees from Rembrandt van Rijn, 19 degrees from John Sargent, 21 degrees from Tom Thomson, 37 degrees from Jan Vermeer and 20 degrees from Mindy Silva on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Mary
Your help in this project is greatly appreciated.
edited by Michelle (Hartman) Detwiler
Emma
Look at this William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tryon-432 He has a notable sticker. You could do that.
You made the profile look great.
Mary
edited by Mary Richardson
Emma
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