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 stories, genealogy, and how our individual and collective histories remain relevant today. I've always collected family stories and found old records fascinating, but 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: Writing has taken a back-burner to my career, which I mostly spent in technology and instructional design. A few years ago, I decided that I needed a change—I missed writing and wanted to spend more time on genealogy and stories that had been lost to history. My first two projects on Minnesota politicians and St. Paul death registers, stem from my previous work, personal life, and genealogical research.

The image on the main page was taken in 1910 and is from a personal archive of photographs and correspondence from my father's Irish-American family, deeply involved in early St. Paul politics.