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Person · Queen Anne “Nancy” Proeger
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationQueen Anne “Nancy” Proeger
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 30 October 1919
- Died
- 21 January 1985
- Parents
- William Leonard Proeger & Anna Blanche Roberts
- Married
- Warren Edgar Debelling
- Sources
- 7
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1919
Born 30 October 1919, Ohio; died 21 January 1985, San Bernardino County, California
California Death Index. With the family in Wallaceburg, Ontario in 1931
S192Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1918
Married first Warren Edgar Debelling (1918–1976), 16 October 1937, Valparaiso, Indiana; second Charles Edward Helgedalen (1926–1991)
Marriage1939
🆕 Her second husband's father was probably
Hans S. Helgedalen Probable confirm or correct →: Clay County, Minnesota, school census entries of 1939–43 at Ulen, read from the FamilySearch index, name Hans Helgedalen as the parent of Charles Helgedalen, born 5 March 1926
S877. The 1930 census of Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, read from the image, lists Hans S. Helgedalen, 50, a farmer born in Minnesota to a Norwegian-born father
S875, and the next sheet lists
Charles E., 4, as his son, with Hans's wife Beulah
S876. What is weak: the school census has been read only as an index; Hans's middle name, given in family trees as Silas, and his birth and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1918
🆕 Her first husband, Warren E. Debelling (born 1918), had married
Ollie A. Arthur by 1963. The California divorce index records a preliminary decree in their divorce in March 1968
Confirmed S1118.
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Probable
🆕 Probably her in Oakland, California, about 1943: “DeBelling Warren E (Nancy) mach h9234 Sunnyside”, Warren a machinist, living at 9234 Sunnyside
Probable confirm or correct → S1000. Evidence: her husband's name and the name Nancy she went by. Weak: the year is from the index, not the page. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
In the record
Generation 3 — Earl's grandparents and their siblings
- S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger
KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced. - S1921931 Census of Canada — the Proeger household, 16 Gillard St., Wallaceburg, Kent, Ontario. Ancestry record 998955; page 17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. William ("Progeor"), 54, mould maker at the glass factory; Anna 40; Richard 18, mould maker; Julius 13; Queen Ann 11. Came to Canada 1928. 🔑 The family lived in Canada from 1928 to at least 1931. William Harry is not in the house, consistent with his 1932 Ohio marriage [S144].
- S8751930 U.S. Federal Census — Hans S. Helgedalen household, Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, Minnesota (ED 14-17, sheet 4B, line 100, dwelling/family 80). Ancestry record 80120612 (image 4610037_00689). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Hans S. Helgedalen, head, 50, first married at 21, born Minnesota, father born Norway, mother born Wisconsin, farmer. Enumerated 22–23 April 1930. He is the last line of the sheet; his household continues on the next sheet (S876).
- S8761930 U.S. Federal Census — Hans S. Helgedalen household, continuation sheet, Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, Minnesota (lines 1–6, family 80). Ancestry record 80120586 (image 4610037_00690). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Beulah, wife, 23, first married at 21, born North Dakota; Clayton A., son, 23; Morise, son, 16; Charles E., son, 4 9/12, born Minnesota; Janice M., daughter, 1; Elizabeth I., daughter, under 1. Continues S875. Clayton and Morise are evidently from Hans's earlier marriage.
- S877Minnesota, Clay County school census records, 1939–43, Ulen — Charles Helgedalen. FamilySearch index entries 1:1:Q2QR-P52M, Q2QT-8MZX and Q2QT-9N29. Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Charles Helgedalen, born 5 March 1926; parent Hans Helgedalen. Three yearly entries; images not read.
- S1000Oakland, California, city directory, pp. 264–265 (the year is not on the page; the index says 1943). Ancestry record 253720475. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable “DeBelling Warren E (Nancy) mach h9234 Sunnyside”: Warren E. DeBelling, machinist, and his wife Nancy, at 9234 Sunnyside. Queen Anne Proeger went by Nancy. The year rests on the index alone.
- S1118California Divorce Index, 1966–1984 — preliminary husband index 1966–77, p. 6,121: Warren E. Debelling. Ancestry record 2089395. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed “DEBELLING WARREN E”, born 1918; wife Ollie A. Arthur, born 1910; married 1963; preliminary decree March 1968; case 379241, state file 019153. The next line is a different Warren E. Debelling, born 1938. This one’s birth year, 1918, is the Warren Edgar Debelling who first married Queen Anne Proeger.