We’ve set the dates for my 2017 group trip to the Family History Library in Salt […]
On 7 August 1883 George A. Trautvetter made out application for removal of the dishonorable discharge […]
George A. Trautvetter served in Company H of the 14th Illinois Infantry in the US Civil […]
An earlier blog post discussed a quilt made by Sophia (Weber) Haase that is housed in […]
[from our old blog in February of 2013] I really wish I could use the image […]
It’s atypical for a Union veteran of the Civil War (or his widow) to not receive […]
[We’re reprinting this after some minor editing] It is June 3, 1860. Anna Gufferman, who is […]
I’ve spent a little time searching at Newspapers.com recently. Newspaper advertisements are sometimes boring, sometimes tedious, and […]
The database entry for Aquilla Jones and Lettie Cook, taken from “Tennessee, County Marriages, 1789-1837,” on […]
Not being too good with fabrics, I’m calling it a tablecloth. The name is not as […]
Things like this are why I wonder about the search algorithms at Ancestry.com that generate search suggestions. In […]
There are genealogists who attempt to trace every possible relative that they can find, no matter […]
All family ephemera is not on paper. Nor are all items older than the genealogist. That’s […]
Not every immigrant stayed in their new country. That’s the apparent case with Gerd Behrens who […]
After having it for some time, I’m finally starting to read Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the […]
Immigrant Challenge: I still have some blanks to go on my chart of immigrant ancestors. It […]
I think I have found Bernard Dirks in the 1865 Illinois State Census. “Think” is the […]
Join us for the following classes this July-August(registration is limited): US land records class US probate records class […]
I sometimes have a difficult time taking pictures of rounded tombstones such as this on in […]
In addition to the regular blog content on my blogs, I put out a weekly summary […]
This is the second (and last) of the new pictures a relative has recently shared with […]
There are times when it is worth considering how much time a specific task is worth […]
When one has researched for quite some time it can be tempting to think that everything […]
I’m still thinking about how I feel about trees being a “mandatory” part of an exhaustive […]
According to the 1880 United States census mortality schedule, Henry Miller died in Brown County, Illinois, […]
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