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By: Rick Searing

Rick Searing — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:14:55 +0000

My wife’s name is Susan so here is to another Susan Searing! Susan is the HR Manager for the large ALCAN Packaging plant in Neenah, Wisconsin. My daughter Emily, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, I believe commented that she had talked with Susan the librarian when she was at Wisconsin. Emily also commented that there is a plaque in memory of Edward Searing at UW recognizing his efforts in the mid 1800′s when he was State Supt of Ed. There is also a room named for him at Minnesota State in Mankato, where he had been president. Rick

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:38:27 +0000

Welcome,Sue and thanks for the comments! We promise we will not ask you to fill in our blanks! My own ‘put down’ was in my teens when I evidenced interest in Searing family history….my Mom (Margaret Woodson Searing, formerly a journalist in Waukegan, IL, now deceased) said, ‘that’s something old men do’….and…she was right..:) But this blog is not just about genealogy, and we hope to offer more than a family tree…Dan

By: suesearing

suesearing — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:53:42 +0000

Thanks for the kind words about my professional accomplishments! I love my work as an academic librarian. Unfortunately (for the Searing family history enthusiasts) my taste for genealogy was permenently soured by my first job out of library school, as a reference librarian at Yale. Because Yale Library was known for its excellent collection in American history, we’d frequently get long letters from amateur genealogists, asking us to fill in the blanks of their family trees. A huge job, and one we couldn’t do for them. So I’m not that interested myself in digging around in the past of the Searing clan, but I’m very curious to connect with others with the same last name, as in my experience it’s pretty rare. Champaign-Urbana is the first place I’ve lived as an adult where there was another Searing in the phone book!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:05:27 +0000

Susan Searing and I have e-mailed each other on and off over the years (as students would e-mail her instead of me about class questions). Stan and Barb came and met her for lunch, and somewhere there’s a picture. They look enough alike to be brother and sister.