Jeremy Verdusco

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Genealogist and researcher with deep experience tracing family paths into and through Michigan and the U.S Midwest. APG, APG Great Lakes, Michigan Genealogical Council. Interviewer, writer and editor. Taking clients, consulting work. simplyv2.com/genealogy

Newspaper clipping from 5 January 1866. Story describes the vicious murder of a woman by her brother in Connor's Creek, an area of Grosse Pointe Township, Wayne County, Michigan. “APPALLING TRAGEDY … A Brother Butchers His Sister with an Axe,” initial news coverage of the death of “Mrs. William Lynch” at the hands of brother “who calls himself John Hanly, but whose real name is John Cooper,” The [Detroit] Michigan Free Press, vol. XXIX, no. 182, 5 January 1866, p. 1, col. 4; imaged, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com/image/1048531672 : accessed 1 July 2026), search “Hanly” and/or “Lynch” in 1866 in Detroit, Michigan.
Inaugurating the glorious Fourth, drawn by C.S. Reinhart from a sketch by H.N. Cady, July 1878. Boys loading and firing pistols, blowing horns, and setting off firecrackers on the Fourth of July. https://www.loc.gov/item/89708527/
Marriage return for Emmet County, Michigan, from 1899. Citation: State of Michigan, Index to Marriages Liber 2, 1881-1899, p. 86, Record of Marriages in the County of Emmet, Record no. 48, Charles S.Thomas, 23, of Petoskey, and Jesse E.VanAmberg, 20, of Petoskey, date of license 22 June 1899; imaged, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940," FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-45L3-C : accessed 11 April 2025) > Emmet > Marriages, 1887-1899, v. 2, image 120 of 122.
Rustic loaf of sourdough bread on a wooden cutting board
Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1936), p. 223, detailed map of Detroit.
Small white dog laying in grass with his head on a lamb chop plushie.
Joseph Russel "Russ" Johnson and Clara Sproat Glenn c. 1905. Excerpt of a photo passed down through the Johnson family, which married into the Sproat family of southeast Ohio. Astronaut and Sen. John Glenn's mother Clara (pictured) was born a Sproat. Photo was likely taken at an event celebrating their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Joseph Sproat and Elizabeth Milliken were married 9 October 1855, potentially dating the photo to 1905.
Image of the sun rising over Tampa Bay.
Circular copper-colored pin on a green background. Pin has the words “Pre-Statehood Families Michigan Before 1837” around the edge with symbols of a log cabin and white pines in the center.
Image of a Spirit Airlines jet being repurposed into a Spirit Halloween store.
Greek Revival style bust of businessman Josiah Barber from 1870s Auburn, New York. Citation: Greek Revival bust of businessman Josiah Barber, Auburn, New York, c. 1870s; held by Cayuga Museum of History and Art, photographed by Karyn Radcliffe, director of collections, and emailed to genealogist Jeremy Verdusco, V Squared Services, 10 October 2025.
News article from April 15, 1912, that wrongly proclaims "Titanic Rams Ice Pact at Sea; 2,000 on Board Are Safe." Citation: “Titanic Rams Ice Pact at Sea; 2,000 on Board Are Safe,” The Saginaw [Michigan] Daily News, 15 April 1912, p. 1, col. 5-7.
Clip from an 1879 newspaper in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area. Transcribed: Pioneer Matron Gone.—In Paris, on Sun- day, the 16th inst., Mrs. Orleans Spaulding died, rather suddenly, though she had been in poor health for several years. Mrs. S. was very highly esteemed, and a very large concourse of the neighbors and friends at- tended the funeral, at which Rev. Mr. Thom- as, of Cascade, delivered the discourse. The family were among the earliest settlers, in 1836, and during the first few years, Mr. Spaulding was afflicted with blindness, while they were wholly dependent upon what could be raised from their farm for subsistence, and the strong will and heroic fortitude of his wife carried them through the struggles in- cidents to that period. They have raised five sons and two daughters, now of mature age, some of them with families, with whom a large circle of neighbors and friends join in sympathy and appreciation of her virtues, whose memory they cherish. Citation: “DIED ... In Paris, Feb. 16, AURILLA ANN, wife of Orleans Spaulding, aged 62 years.,” Grand Rapids [Michigan] Eagle, 21 February 1879, p. 4, col. 1; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1190176353/ : accessed 18 December 2025), search "Spaulding" in Michigan, Feb. 1879. Then, full obit later in the same column: “Pioneer Matron Gone.”
Microfilmed pages of immigration records from the 1891 in Saginaw, Michigan. Image shows two pages of a county immigration book recording declarations of intention for immigrants seeking to become United States citizens. Citation: Saginaw County Circuit Court, Naturalization Records, Declaration of Intention, RG 89-77, microfilm roll 8051, vol. 11 (“Vol. I, 1888-1892”), p. 248, declaration of intention for Charles/Carl Stielow, sworn 22 January 1891, attested by Clerk Frank M. [Tatum], deputy clerk; accessed and imaged by researcher Jeremy Verdusco, 15 November 2025, Archives of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, Michigan.
Baptism register from 1838, rural Pomerania (in modern-day Poland). Item no. 2 records the birth of Carl Frederick Steilow to laborer Michael Stielow and his wife Wilhelmine, née Henning, both of Dölitz. Evangelische Kirche Muscherin (Kr. Pyritz), p. 45, record no. 2, entry for Carl Friedrich Stielow, born 14 February 1838, baptized 25 June 1838, son of Michael Stielow and Wilhelmine Henning; imaged, "Pomerania, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1544–1883," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8798/images/32495_77starg1380-00057 : accessed 9 November 2025) > Müscherin > 1824-1848, image 57 of 190; citing Landesarchiv Greifswald, Germany.
Signed excerpt of an Alien Registration (Form AR-2) from 1940. Clipping features an index finger print of the registrant, as well as his signature and the name of a witness. Forms were required during WWII of non-naturalized residents age 14 and older. U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Alien Registration (Form AR-2) for Macario Verduzco, alien registration no. A2374388, Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, 30 September 1940; Digital Records Division, Reference Branch (RRDR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C.
Newspaper ad from 1911: Headline: Do You Feel This Way? Text: Do you feel all tired out? Do you sometimes think you just can’t work away at your profession or trade any longer? Do you have a poor appetite, and lay awake at nights unable to sleep? Are your nerves all gone, and your stomach too? Has ambition to forge ahead in the world left you? If so, you might as well put a stop to your misery. You can do it if you will. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will make you a different individual. It will set your lazy liver to work. It will set things right in your stomach, and your appetite will come back. It will purify your blood. If there is any tendency in your family toward consumption, it will keep that dread destroyer away. Even after consumption has almost gained a foothold in the form of a lingering cough, bronchitis, or bleeding at the lungs, it will bring about a cure in 98 per cent. of all cases. It is a remedy prepared by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose advice is given free to all who wish to write him. His great success has come from his wide experience and varied practice. Don’t be wheedled by a penny-grabbing dealer into taking inferior substitutes for Dr. Pierce’s medicines, recommended to be “just as good.” Dr. Pierce’s medicines are of KNOWN COMPOSITION. Their every ingredient printed on their wrappers. Made from roots without alcohol. Contain no habit-forming drugs. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. “Do You Feel This Way?,” Laredo [Texas] Times, 16 April 1910, p. 6, cols. 4-5; imaged, Chronicling America (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86089566/1911-04-16/ed-1/?st=gallery : accessed 29 January 2026).
Snippet from an ancestor Joseph Freeman's probate packet. This is a sworn statement from Joseph's brother John K. Freeman about Joseph Freeman's return to Canada without his family: "The aforenamed Joseph Froemen was married over fifty years ego and had a family of five ohildren. He left these parts for the State of Michigen very soon after his marriage and settled on a farm there. He returned alone about forty yeara ago and it was learned from him that his wife had left him taking her children with her and going further west. The said Joseph Freeman lived with me and in the neighborhood of my residence above named for some twenty years and then want west to Manitobe and farmed there lor some time, returning again a year ago last July. Shortly afterwards he became demented and last surmer was committed to Rockwood Asylum for the Insane where his decease ocourred last month. After his return from Michigen and until the present date no trace whetever has been had of his wife or children and their present whereabouts is completely unknown to me." Ontario, Frontenac County, Surrogate Court Estate Files, Item 1, Estate Files, 391-514, Mar. 1907-May 1908, estate file no. 415, Joseph Freeman, d. 3 April 1907, petitioned for administration by brother John Kilborne Freeman; imaged, "Estate files, 391-514 Mar. 1907-May 1908," FamilySearch.com (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS5X-D9WD-Z : accessed 24 December 2025) > Film # 008272744, images 593-604; citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
News story from 1911 describes a Wisconsin woman's death. She was struck by lightning while in church. The lightning hit the steeple, then traveled through a chandelier to the floor of the church where she sat. The death happened during a funeral service. “Woman Killed by Lightning,” The Hartford [Wisconsin] Times, 11 August 1911, p. 1, cols. 3-4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1151339131/ : accessed 23 December 2025).
Old newspaper clip: Alleged Seduction. Ella Annis, a maiden 26 years old, now living in the township of Cascade, accused William Van Amburg of seduction. William went away some five or six weeks ago, and quietly dropped down in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, there to await news of further developments here. Of course letters came from him and went to him, and the officers found out his whereabouts. Ella was anxious that he should be brought back to her, and the proper papers being obtained Deputy Sheriff Steketee started after him Wednesday night, 22d. He was gone about forty-eight hours, traveled about 600 miles, and last night arrived in the city with William. William is in jail awaiting an examination, or his wedding, calamities that do not seem to dampen his spirits at all. “Alleged Seduction.,” Grand Rapids [Michigan] Eagle, 25 July 1874, p. 1, col. 2; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1189519138/ : accessed 28 November 2025), search "William VanAmburg" in Kent County, Michigan, 1874.
Transcribed account of Thanksgiving, Nov. 27 1868, with the families of the Brown brothers of the Hudson area, Lenawee County, Michigan. Attended by Lorenzo, Lewis, George, Noah and William, at William's home. "Entire party including their wives, children & others, about 35." "Lenawee, Michigan, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99VP-Q16H : Nov 27, 2025) > Image Group No. 007615428, image 298 of 1609.
Pages from a 1834 General Land Office Tract Book depicting handwritten records of early property transfers in the Michigan Territory. Entry for Orleans Spaulding is sixth from the bottom. United States. General Land Office, Tract Book, Michigan, Bronson Land District, NW, vol. 10, p. 128, entry for SW¼ of SE¼, Section 8, Township 6 North, Range 11 West (40 acres), purchased by Orleans Spaulding, 12 November 1834, for $1.25 per acre ($50 total); imaged, Michigan. Tract Books 1789–1950,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WS-YZ41 : accessed 19 November 2025) > Image Group no. 007111200, image 589 of 684; citing U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.
Archives of Michigan, rg89-77 8059 Herman Stielow naturalization oath 47 61. Record from 1904 documents the oath of U.S. naturalization sworn by Herman Stielow, an immigrant from Prussia.
Me, genealogist Jeremy Verdusco, doing a selfie at Archives of Michigan.
Tall capped light tan mushroom in a side yard of grass and clover.
Index page from an early Detroit immigration book. Photo by Jeremy Verdusco, V Squared Services LLC, jeremy@simplyv2.com, www.simplyv2.com/genealogy.
Ground covered in fallen orange and red leaves
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Sourdough loaf viewed from the top on a light wood cutting board.
Alley view of Hamtramck Disneyland, a found art installation in Hamtramck, Michigan, created by Ukrainian American Dmytro Szylak, who died in 2015. Photo shows two colorfully painted garages under a blue sky, with many colorful and kinetic artworks on top the garages and between. The site is now run by the non-profit Hatch Art.
Fresh sourdough boule on a cooling rack against a black, glass-top stove background.
“MRS. CHARLTON DEAD,” The Hamilton [Ontario] Spectator, 20 September 1905, p. 10, col. 4; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1005849362 : accessed 10 May 2024), search terms: “Charlton” and “1905”.
Open mouth representing the U.S. First Amendment's Freedom of Speech. Inside the mouth is the American singer Woody Guthrie's famous slogan, "This Machine Kills Fascists."
Crowd of people representing the U.S. First Amendment's Freedom of Assembly. One person prominently holds a sign with the American singer Woody Guthrie's famous slogan, "This Machine Kills Fascists."
Image of sod being pulled back to reveal a flat grave stone in a cemetery. Words: Uncover your family history. Website: simplyv2.com/genealogy.
Scene of a cemetery on a cloudy day. Large monument in the foreground shows the names and death dates of three children, Nellie, Grace A. and John H., who all died in 1879. Stone notes that they are children of Sherman and Mary Williams.
Photographer unknown, "Beds of Eloise Asylum," item no. 106008, c. 1920s, binder of loose photos: "Photos - Eloise," accessed 6 Sept. 2025, Westland Historic Village Park, 857 N. Wayne Road, Westland, MI 48185; imaged by independent researcher Jeremy Verdusco, V Squared Services LLC, 200 W. 2nd St., #756, Royal Oak, MI 48068.
Flat grave marker revealed by peeling back sod. Roots of the grass follow an imprint of the lettering on the stone.
Photo of two Mexican American teens in the Midwest from around 1925. Both are dressed in their finery. Two roses lay on a small table between them. Citation: Dolores and Miguel Verdusco, photo, year unknown but potentially early to mid-1920s, image donated to Public Libraries of Saginaw by Richard Romero (grandson and grand-nephew of photo subjects); imaged, "Latino American Community Collection," Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/dolores-mother-of-ricardo-romero-and-miguel-uncle-of-ricardo-romero : accessed 9 September 2025); citing Public Libraries of Saginaw, Hoyt Library, Local History & Genealogy Collection, 505 Janes Avenue, Saginaw, Michigan 48607.
Newspaper editorial cartoon of a skeletal specter and large snake bearing the word VACCINATION, both looming over a mother protecting a small child. Citation: Cartoon excerpt from “The Peril,” broadsheet periodical, no. 23 (Battle Creek, Michigan: Jan. 1, 1915), bound volume, Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection, 5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48226, Call no.: L74B32 015 T77; digitized on site Aug. 19, 2025, by independent researcher Jeremy Verdusco, V Squared Services LLC, 200 W. 2nd St., #756, Royal Oak, MI 48068.
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Image of a marriage register from the early 20th century.
Video of a monarch butterfly emerging from a cocoon on the underside of a large leafy weed that has been pulled.
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Old book open to a page with several Declaration of Intention records for people in Wayne County, Michigan, who plan to naturalize. Document from 1884.
Photo of an impression of a fallen leaf captured in wet cement poured last autumn.
Immigration Declaration of Intention document for the state of Michigan, county of Wayne from the 1800s. Document used as an example, and not transcribed for content.
Habaneros, carrots, garlic, cilantro and salt in a stainless steel mixing bowl.
Tightly cropped image of a death certificate. Image shows deceased was a laborer and his father was unknown.
Sign nailed to a tree reads, “No trespassing I own firearms and a backhoe.”
Genealogist Jeremy Verdusco on a recent trip to the Archives of Michigan. Image by Jeremy Verdusco. Please no reproduction without permission.
U.S. declaration of intention for naturalization from 1884 for an immigrant named Carl Stielow.
Black and white pedestrian crossing sign that reads “Push Button to Turn on Warning Lights.”
Sourdough bread loaf on a wooden cutting board.
Example of bad enumeration from the 1950 U.S. Census, with scribbles and major conflicts in information.
Newspaper death notice for “Eliza, relict of the late Edward Barber”: "DIED," The Hamilton [Ontario] Spectator, 12 January 1883, p. 1, col. 1; imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1005287956/?match=1&clipping_id=142230894 : accessed 27 February 2024).
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Round sourdough bread loaf on a stripped wooden cutting board.
Sourdough in a rattan banneton, ready for last proofing, against a black background.
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