Welcome!  Please come in and visit for a while.  Indiana Ties is a place for sharing family history. 

      This family story becomes more curious and compelling with each research corner we turn.  As in all our families, the characters and their actions have created our personal history.  Each piece of discovery molds the overall picture so that we can understand why, how, where and the when of all of our ancestors.  It's fun to see the stories come together, revealing the trials and the successes. 
     So far, the origins of my ancestors are predominantly German. They hail from Prussia, or Baden, or Hessen and so on, depending on the name of the region during a certain era.  Some emigrated from Bavaria, Pomerania and
Westphalia.  But eventually all of their roads led to Indiana.  Thus, I have chosen to call this gathering place Indiana Ties. 
      It's exciting to discover the family history details through online databases, library archives, cemeteries and court house records.  But just as enjoyable are the messages I receive from walking, talking cousins who find me here on my website.  I'm happy to share our history with all of my cousins, aunts, uncles and shoestring relatives.
     I hope you'll stay with me as I uncover more details here at Indiana Ties.  Please browse around using the links at the top of the page. Take a look at the Family Lines and read my Family Stories.  You'll find an ongoing dialogue and special features at the Indiana Ties blog.  
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     Thanks for stopping by. 
        Nancy (Niehaus) Hurley
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Featured Family Photo  --  February 2015

I'm glad to have a collection of photos that our family saved and shared.  My plan is to use this spot each month to feature one of those pieces of family history.  If you are in my family lines and have a photo to add to this collection, I would be very pleased to post it.  Email me a copy along with a brief description. Or if you have feedback on the photo below, let me hear your update. Click on the "contact me" tab at the top of this page to send me a message. 
                            
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Louise Charlotte Albers Niehaus, 11 Aug 1893 - 28 Feb 1919.
     Louise Albers was born to Charles and Martha (Marsischky) Albers on  August 11, 1893.  As a young woman Louise worked at the C. B. Cones Overall Manufacturing Co. in Indianapolis where she met John Niehaus.  They were married in Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Indianapolis on 23 Aug 1911.
     Her family lost her tragically on February 28, 1919. My paternal grandmother was a victim of the 1918 flu pandemic, along with her six month old baby.  She left her husband, John Niehaus, with three small children, my aunt Charlotte (Age 6), my uncle Robert (Age 4) and my dad Frank (Age 3). 
     The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. It infected 500 million people across the world and killed 50 to 100 million of them.  Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. 
     Louise's face tells me I would have enjoyed knowing her.

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     You can find more about Louise on the Family Lines page.