The Old Prestonia Elementary School, Jefferson Co., Kentucky
his photograph is a school wide gathering, likely sometime between 1910 and 1920, of the first through eight grades in Jefferson Co., Kentucky. I think I recognize Herman Joseph Breitenstein Sr. in this photograph. Does anyone see any other...
Read moreOkolona High School Football Team 1940s Photograph
Unidentified Photographs Can Still Be Useful Here is a professional 8 1/2 x 11 inch black and white photograph of an unidenified football team that was loose inside an old photograph album from the 1940s from rural Jefferson Co....
Read moreSouth Carolina County Marriage Records
Runaway Marriages Marriages have taken place in various northern South Carolina border counties for brides and grooms from Tennessee and North Carolina. Ancestry does not have a strong South Carolina marriage section, nothing comparable to their research sections...
Read moreThe Breitenstein Book is Done
The Breitenstein Family: From Oberotterbach, Bavaria to Louisville, Kentucky The Breitenstein Family: From Oberotterbach, Bavaria to Louisville, Kentucky; Four Generations – Descendants of Jacob and Margaret (Gerber) Breitenstein The book’s not quite 300 pages, including an every person index, footnotes, bibliography, chart, table,...
Read moreReading in the Middle of the Day!
I received a present, Wellspring, the last Janice Holt Giles book published in 1979, a collection of thoughts, fiction, and memoirs. How I missed this one, I don’t know, partly because I discovered the author in 1965 and she...
Read moreGenealogists are NEVER really finished!
Life Goes On Genealogists can never be done because life goes on; babies are born, grow up, get married, divorced, have their own children, and then ultimately pass away. I sent my Breitenstein book off to the publisher a...
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