Ultimate Genealogical Test
I recently came across my grandmother’s file of papers from my parents’ wedding. The costs of the cakes, reception food and drink, and dress were all in this file along with the lists of presents received at the shower...
Read moreUnder the Name of Sanders
If research subjects are not findable under their own names, try their alternates, initials, nicknames, pseudonyms, nom de plume, pen name, alias, nom de guerre, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) name, or performance name. (Two examples of performance names are...
Read moreThe Science Fair is Coming
One December week, my kindergarten daughter’s Friday Folder included an eleven page two sided single spaced instruction handout for the upcoming school wide science fair. I recycled it. While she could read, my feeling was five year olds and...
Read moreEight of Nine Breitenstein Brothers Photo ca. 1906
I am in the midst of proofreading The Descendants of Jacob and Margaret Gerber Breitenstein of Louisville. As a break, because proofreading is very hard work, I came across a photograph of the family of their seventh son, Michael...
Read moreHenritze Christmas 1906
My dad’s cousin, Dave, sent me some photographs in 1991 of various parts of the T. L. Henritze family, his first four sons, some of his in-laws and a Christmas shot taken in 1906 in Welch, West Va.
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