Tag: Genealogy help

Discovering Cousin Jacks and Cousin Jennies

They crossed the ocean, and with them, they brought years of mining experience, spirited hymns, and pasties.  Countless Copper Country residents and descendants of former residents trace their heritage to one of the innumerable Cousin Jacks and Cousin Jennies–allegedly so named because the miners always spoke of myriad relatives by these names–who came to the . . .