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.
At certain times in the early 20th century, women lost U.S. citizenship when marrying foreign-born men. The U.S. Expatriation Act of 1907 mandated that all women acquired their husband’s nationality upon marriage. As a result, [...]
Join Library of Congress staff for their Searching LOC.gov webinar on Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 4pm EST. The nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, the Library of Congress holds millions [...]
Get Free Access to Swedish Records 14-15 November 2015 at ArkivDigital. Click here to get started searching 57 million pages of Swedish parish and household exam records. Specifically, ArchivDigital Online site contains approximately 58 million color images of almost [...]
Today's topic is newly released U.S. Veterans' Claim Files, 1917-1948, a group of records now available from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This record group includes cases closed by the VA from 1917-1948, which were [...]
