About The Rode's, Bentley's, Glover's, Wing's, Doble's, Gould's, Reasby's, Eickmeyer's, Vock's, ETC.
"Back when I was a child I remember asking my parents and grandparents about our families; the Rode's and Bentley's, and where they came from but all they could tell me was where they were from. Around the middle of the 1850's The Rode's sailed to Canada. My Grandmother Merle Viola (Bentley) Olson Bullock told me her family came from England. My family has always lived in Minnesota in or around Annandale, Wright County, Minnesota.
My involvement with genealogy started back in 2001 when my brothers, one sister and my Mom were talking about past relatives and my Mom told me that she had the lineage of her Bentley line, done by George and Violet Bentley. They lived in Clearwater, MN and they did all of this with the help of Betty Sonnek of Waldorf, MN in May of 1999. I have no other information concerning their resources or their methods. At this time I got heavily into computers and started searching for family on the Internet. Having a copy of the Bentley line from my mother, I decided to chart the entire Bentley and Olson lineage.
First I put all of the data into the web authoring software program, FrontPage 2000. I then found a site that I liked, Ancestry.com, and it's sister site, Rootsweb with Freepages. I then used FrontPage to create and upload my Bentley Tree. I then charted all my family lineage on Family Tree Maker. That is when I truly began my trek walking down the path of Genhood.
Scott's hobbies, when not chasing down Bentley ancestors, includes hunting for and polishing agates, something his deceased WWII veteran father Charles William Rode got his kids involved with at an early age. He also enjoys
writing and singing music, playing guitar, and various
challenging games including puzzles. Surely the puzzle training is helpful with the genealogy.
He graduated from high school in Annandale, MN in 1976, enlisted in the Navy in 1976 and went to boot camp in San Diego, California. He was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS America CV-66 aircraft carrier, which has been decommissioned and now lays to rest off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. Scott was honorably discharged in 1980 as an IM E5 (Instrument Repairman Second Class Petty Officer). After his discharge, he worked for several years as an Office Machine Repair Technician in St Cloud, MN, then Denver, Colorado and back to the Twin Cities, MN area. Scott then worked for Target in their downtown Minneapolis headquarters, loading the Windows based operating system onto 10 to 20 computers per day and setting them up at the Target employees desks. He now is a Furniture Sales Consultant working for HOM Furniture in Coon Rapids, MN.
Story told by Scott Rode rewritten by Robert H. Glover for the Bentley and Glover websites
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