My Grandmother at Work c. 1912
My grandmother at work c. 1912 – Frieda Hann Loe (second from right) worked as a seamstress and tailor most of her life in various Chicago sweatshops. She was born in Chicago in 1896 as [...]
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Jul 2010
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Jul 2010
More Kirschsteins
I just found more Kirschsteins. But now that I have a whole new line to follow, the local LDS library will be closed for the month of August. Things never progress as fast as [...]
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Jul 2010
Follow Friday – Shorpy.com
Follow Friday – Shorpy.com is my pick today. Shorpy.com - History in HD is a vintage photo blog I love. It features thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s, available for download. Most of the photographs presented [...]
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Jul 2010
Birth and Baptism of Bruno Kirschstein
Today a brick wall crumbled when I found the birth and baptism of Bruno Kirschstein, my great-grandfather, in the Lutheran parish church records of Rawitsch, Posen, Prussia. With this record, I also found the names [...]