Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Chicago Genealogy: African-American Resources is today's list. For links to other Chicago resources, click here. Please note: This list is meant to include resources in addition to the ones found at the traditional genealogical sites like [...]
This Judson Baptist Church History, Oak Park, Illinois, published in 1941, is helpful for Chicago genealogy, especially researchers working in the Austin/Oak Park area. My parents were married in this church that year. And [...]
Research on Free and Enslaved African American Lives Continues New understanding of the lives of those enslaved in the early 19th century at Montpelier–the estate of James Madison, 4th president of the United States–continues [...]
Download free guides to US military records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Perhaps you have recently discovered a service member in your family tree, or you need an overview of records [...]
Today I went touring 1910 Chicago. This experience was due to the creative combination of history and multimedia at Chicago flagship public radio station WBEZ. The WBEZ show, Curious City, responded to a question [...]
The members of the Kellytown Junior Genealogy Club are 8-12 years old. They meet every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon with their leader, Karen, who wrote to me about the club. Becoming History Detectives In [...]
Digitization grants for 2020 were recently announced by the National Archives and Records Administration. Digitization Grants of Interest to Genealogists Unified Court Systems of New York State to support digitizing and making available freely [...]
Visualizing 315 Years of the Atlantic Slave Trade 315 years. Millions of lives. 20,528 voyages in this infographic, documented from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. The infographic above was designed by Slate magazine's Andrew Kahn, to [...]
Happy St. Valentine's Day to my readers. Today's post is about love stories found in formerly enslaved narratives at the Library of Congress. These narratives are available here: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from [...]
One of the most important and compelling articles I've ever read about slavery, reparations, and genealogy, documenting Georgetown University's Search for Slave Descendants, is on the front page of the New York Times this morning. In [...]
Documenting Death in the Civil War is the title of a one-hour presentation by National Archives staff genealogist John Deeben. Available for free at the National Archives's YouTube channel, this excellent presentation explores in depth records created by [...]
Where we came from in the United States...and where we went is the subject of today's post. These infographics from the New York Times illustrate domestic migration from 1900 through 2012. You know I love a good set of interactive [...]
Welcome to all of my new readers who found Sassy Jane Genealogy in Family Tree Magazine. Lisa Louise Cooke's article, "Social Media Mavericks: 40 to Follow," includes this site and my posts on Facebook. It's [...]
Identifying the woman who wrote the The Bondwoman’s Narrative is the subject of a great article at the New York Times today. In 2002, an 1850s novel written by a fugitive formerly enslaved woman was published [...]
