James & Mary Loofbourrow
At the age of 24, James Shanks Loofbourrow joined the Grand Army of the Republic in September 1861 and served until November 1864 during the Civil War. When he returned to his home in Hillsboro Iowa, he married Mary Catherine Syfert. They had 7 children. We based our family’s history and genealogy on their union, although we added additional family lines of their ancestors and descendants.
Genealogy Info
Full Gedcom of our family. Search for family members, see family tree charts, learn more of your family tree.
Stories and History
Information about our family members. Books authored by family members, stories, and other publications.
Photos
Historic photos of family dating back to the mid-1800s. Reunions and some photo images of documents.
Obituaries
For those that have passed. We are adding older obituaries from the 1800s and early 1900s.
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Welcome
This is our family website for Loofbourrow, Syfert, Day, Barker, Agnew, Rittenhouse, Shanks, and many others that are in the family tree. This site has books, references, history, stories, genealogy, obituaries, photo archive, and much more. This is a new website for our family history, having upgraded to newer software: It is a work in progress so…
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Family History Project
As most of you know, the 2019 2nd edition of “Ancestors & Descendants of James Shanks Loofbourrow & Mary Catherine Syfert” was available in time for the 2019 holidays. Many of you helped Margie in this effort by sending in updates and photos and biograhical info. Those of you that did not get their…
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First Hand Pandemic Experience
Some of you may find the diary entries that our own Royal Day made during the 1918 Spanish Influenza interesting. At the age of 17 (going on 18) Royal Day had made a contract with himself at the beginning of 1918 to write a diary with the aim “to amuse myself on reading it several decades hence”.…
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Holiday Memories Project
A few years ago we collected holiday stories from several of our cousins and relatives and gathered them into a 35 page collection. These include stories from the turn of the century (1900) and some as recent as a few years ago. There are stories from our relatives in Iowa, Oklahoma, many from southern California…
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Donate
Help with Family History: Donate What a fantastic and rich family history we have and most due to cousins like Margie (Hockaday) Kinnaman and others that have sent in family history items like stories, diaries, photos, recordings, and shared their own family history efforts. These have all helped in the work of recording and…
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Genealogy
Thanks to fantastic family involvement in helping capture our family history, and the diligent and hard work of decades by Margie, we all now have a rich family history document that includes: interesting charts, Family Trees, Ancestor and Descendants charts, and lots of details on our ancestors.. Interested? Check out the new 2nd edition of our Family Genealogy…
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Photo Scanning Guideline
A note about the Photos: All the original photo’s vary in size, but generally we tried to store a digital image that was ruffly 3,000 x 4,000 pixels. In other terminology, we are storing the equivalent of 8MB (8 million bytes -or- 8 mega-pixels). This is about twice the resolution of today’s digital cameras. Obviously,…
