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I started researching my Family History as the result of a planned reunion of the Hopkins Cousins at the Hopkins Homestead near Roseglenn, ND in 1994. My Aunt Lavinia started sending us information about our ancestors and the history of the farm, so I decided to put the information in a book and record all of the current descendants of James and Millie Hopkins.
We already had a genealogist in the family, Ralph Graham, who is my Dad's first cousin. He provided me with lots of information about James and Millie's ancestors but his records did not include the current generations. He also attened our reunion to give us all a family history lesson.
In 1996 the Robbins - Linnertz cousins had a reunion and I did a book for that reunion also. I always knew my parents were cousins to each other but I didn't know how they were related until I did the research. My parents are second cousins once removed. My Great Grandmother Millie Gater Hopkins and my Great Great Grandmother Sarah Gater Robbins were sisters. Millie's grandson Warren married Sarah's great granddaughter Barbara, Which makes the James Hopkins and Nicholas Linnertz families all related to each other and gives me and my sibblings, first cousins, and aunts and uncles double relationships to everyone on both sides of the family.
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