1906 Swedish Funeral Card
This 1906 Swedish funeral card served as both an invitation to services and a keepsake of the departed. As seen below, the card folds in half. And then top folds to create a flap. [...]
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Nov 2020
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Jan 2018
1907 Chicago Funeral Card
For Funeral Card Friday, let's look at a 1907 Chicago funeral card. I've been sleuthing these interesting cards lately. So what better day to talk about this than Funeral Card Friday, using the example [...]
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Apr 2011
Organizing Family Papers: Sorting Saturday
Today’s Sorting Saturday post is about organizing family records, those pesky bits and folders and cartons of paper that seem to defy organization. Librarians catalog, but archivists arrange and describe. [...]
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Dec 2017
A Literal Treasure Chest Thursday
Today is a literal Treasure Chest Thursday, as I sort through the family papers and photographs my mother bequeathed me. But first I want to thank the readers and Facebook friends who reached out [...]
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Apr 2016
Free California Digital Archives for Genealogy Part 3
Free California Digital Archives for Genealogy Part 3 is part of Sassy Jane Genealogy's States on Sunday series, providing links to free digital resources for each of the fifty states. Part 1 featured the major resources available. Part [...]
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Mar 2011
Chicago Genealogy: German-American Church Records and Cemeteries
Chicago Genealogy: German-American Church Records and Cemeteries For a list of other posts on Chicago German-American genealogy resources, click here. For links to other Chicago resources, click here. 1. Major Christian German-American Denominations Your research [...]