Ancestry.com's yearbook collection answered the question of what brought
Tjede Ehmen (via her son-in-law Henry Staack) to the Rock Island-Moline, Illinois area: Staack was on the faculty of Augustana College.
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Henry F. Staack from the 1944 Augustana College yearbook. No page number, but this image was obtained on Ancestry.com and is indicated as image 28 of 170. |
Staack's picture appears in the 1944 Augustana College yearbook on
Ancestry.com
as shown above. Yearbooks can answer all kinds of questions--and not just ones about students.
I'm not certain how much more I'll research Staack--he's the husband of a second cousin of my great-grandfather, but there have been a few interesting lessons and reminders in tracking down Tjede.