Cyril Richardson Tifft, a widower, married Jean Goodrich Watson, a widow in 1947. Over many years of their marriage, they created a large, blended family made up of four sets of grandparents, four children, eight grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, in-laws, and several foreign students. This is the story of how the extended and blended family of Cyril and Jean Tifft came to be.
Margaret Tifft Janis has been interested in family history for as long as she can remember. Following a fast-paced career and a major health scare, her life finally slowed down enough to start researching her family history in 2012. This is a brief recounting of her life before Tengens.net.
As a child, Margaret Tifft heard many stories about the history of her blended and extended family, told by her parents, and her many grandparents. She was intrigued by these stories and always wanted to research the genealogy and history of her extended and blended family. This is the story of how her passion developed a very early age.
In Tengens.net, half sisters, Margaret Tifft Janis and B. Mary Tifft Froelicher present the results of their research into the history of the Tifft, Goodrich, Hallberg, and Watson families, which became one complex, extended, and blended family when Cyril Tifft and Margaret Jean Goodrich Watson were married in 1947. Tengens.net is their family storie, told in posts.
Cyril Richardson Tifft was born into a family of pioneers. Most were among the earliest settlers in New England in the mid-1600s. Later they became early settlers in Illinois and Minnesota. This is the story of Cyril’s ancestors in America.
Cyril Richardson Tifft, a revered physician and surgeon in St. Paul, Minnesota for over forty years, was born in Glencoe, Minnesota in 1906. He was married twice—first to Beatrice Hallberg, who passed away suddenly in 1946, and second to Jean Goodrich Watson, a WW II widow with a small son. With Beatrice, he had two daughters, and with Jean he had a third daughter. In 1949, Cyril and Jean adopted each other’s children, creating one large blended family.
