Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about using primary sources for genealogy research. Primary sources are created at the time of an event, such as birth, marriage, and death records.
Do you want to help the Library of Congress by making historic newspaper photos searchable? Beyond Words makes historic newspaper photos searchable by transcribing captions. This new Library of Congress crowdsourcing project invites volunteers to [...]
The Western State Lunatic Asylum and Martha Saul is my follow-up post to a 2010 Madness Monday post about my husband's great-great grandmother. In 1860, she was a wife and mother to five children; [...]
Have you used Place Research Tool for genealogy research? You can search FamilySearch's huge database of geographical information. And best of all, it helps return better results when searching their catalog. Place Name Research Place [...]
Searching for Medad Curtis the Shaker took me down new research paths, including finding accounts of his daring rescue of Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee. Some sources said my husband's great-great-great-great grandfather Medad was a [...]
