Tiny Ogema, Minn., comes alive as more than 500 show up for family reunion

Tiny Ogema, Minn., comes alive as more than 500 show up for family reunion
They came in a sea of color-coded T-shirts: Pink, red, orange, green, yellow, light blue, dark blue, purple, and all were descended from Henry Teiken and Anna Jasken, whose families both moved to Ogema the same day in 1910.
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Nathan Bowe |
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This group photo shows the colored T-shirts worn by people at the reunion as a kind of visual family tree. (Photo by Jessie Smith of Ogema)
OGEMA, Minn. — It was a colorful group that got together in tiny Ogema, Minn., last weekend.
And not just because of their personalities: Hundreds came from across the country for a big family reunion, and they wore color-coded T-shirts, the better to sort each other out.

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