Bob lived most of his life in Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin, but he was born in Chicago in 1919.
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At the time of the 1920 census, he appears as an infant in a household in Chicago Ward 8 with his parents, three-year-old brother, and aunt Aggnes Nelson. The family here is indexed with the surname "Strand."
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In the 1930 census, he appears as a 10-year-old with his father, mother, and brother in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
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In the 1940 census, he appears as a 20-year-old in a household with his 48-year-old widower father.
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Sources
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"Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7SC-D9M : 18 May 2016), Robert Ostrand, 09 Jul 1919; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 21388, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,308,889.
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"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ38-K6Y : accessed 12 July 2019), Robert E Strand in household of Harvey Strand, Chicago Ward 8, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States; citing ED 523, sheet 12A, line 5, family 355, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 318; FHL microfilm 1,820,318.
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"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9QW-CJS : accessed 12 July 2019), Robert Ostrand in household of Harvey Ostrand, Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 7A, line 6, family 163, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2569; FHL microfilm 2,342,303.
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"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7VW-T1L : 15 March 2018), Robert Ostrand in household of Harvey Ostrand, Ward 3, Sturgeon Bay, Sturgeon Bay City, Door, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15-17, sheet 61A, line 7, family 185, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4474.
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not a bad way to be remembered..making people smile.