About

Syndicate & Hague is quite literally an intersection. It was the place where several generations of my family lived, and is the place where I learned to listen closely to the stories that get passed down and the identities we create in that process.

This site focuses on Minnesota, genealogy, and how our individual and collective histories remain relevant today. It's a labor of love for me. While I've always collected family stories and found old records fascinating, once I started digging into records and constructing stories for myself and others that included newspaper articles and translated records from overseas I was hooked.

About me: I worked in technology, academic tech, and instructional design for a very long time and am taking a break to work on several personal projects, including this site. I come from a family of public health workers and I worked with public health experts for many years, and they are responsible in part for inspiring me to develop the St. Paul Death Register Project.

If you're curious about the image on the main page, that is from a personal archive of correspondence circa the 1950s. More about those will be available to subscribers (which is free!).