My grandmother Ufkes (Dorothy Alice [Habben] Ufkes [1924-2008]), always told me that her grandfather Goldenstein made […]
3 November 1873 the steamship Weser arrived in New York City. Focke Goldenstein was on board. […]
One always has to be thinking and paying attention when searching. It also helps to never […]
It’s difficult to imagine sending your sixteen year old child to a foreign land knowing that […]
I will be giving three presentations on Veterans’ Day: Military Benefit Records Using Fold3.com BLM Tract […]
Just like there’s rarely actually three brothers who came as stowaways to the Americas, there’s no […]
There’s lies, damned lies, and then there are census records. Census information is only as reliable […]
My great-great-grandfather Ira Sargent’s second wife seems to have been dropped from a UFO into Adams […]
This can be a really gray area. My Grandma Neill indicated that she didn’t know much about […]
Theodore Trautvetter went missing from Warsaw, Illinois in January of 1890. He was eventually found in […]
There’s no bigger genealogy library than the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Every […]
The results were published in the Louisville Daily Courier of 6 August 1859. There had been an […]
The last in the series about Cornelia Albers’ invalid homestead claim in Dawson County, Nebraska, in the […]
The postcard of eight Carthage, Illinois, churches that I purchased on Ebay has arrived. It was unused and is […]
Rural newspapers are known for publishing gossip items that make them seem like the social media […]
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