Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about Chicago genealogy research, including researching specific ethnicities, finding and using Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois vital records, and more.
Researching my Chicago family, I found a devastating death in the now-forgotten 1919 Chicago dirigible crash. On 21 Jul 1919. Marcus Charles Callopy and his colleagues were finishing work for the day. Mark, a [...]
These Chicago German-Language Newspaper Obituaries helped me break through my Austrian genealogy brick wall. Searching for an Austrian Birthplace Churchyard at the Ladis Catholic Church. Regular readers know how elusive Gottfried Hann, [...]
This post is about unusual records and my great-grandfather Chicago tailor Hans Loe. Like so many European immigrants to American cities, my great-grandfather worked as a tailor. His brother cut patterns for a living. [...]
Interested in visualizing Chicago before the Great Fire of 1871? If you have a lot of ancestors in Chicago, like I do, inevitably you find yourself wondering about life there before 1871. Recently the [...]
