Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
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 [...]
The Illinois State Genealogical Society Fall Conference 2013 is coming on October 25 and 26 in Sandwich, Illinois. I'm happy to say I'll be there, presenting on Saturday the 26th. Since I was actually [...]
I've been working on translating the parish record for the marriage of Carl Bauch and Anna Braun on 28 November 1837, Rawitsch, Posen, Prussia. My continuing adventures trying to translate 19th-century German parish records without [...]
The Berggren brothers of Sweden were killed “in the usual way” mining iron ore in Ishepeming, Michigan, in 1889. Today’s Tombstone Tuesday is about Lars Erick and Per August and the grief their friends and family [...]
