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.
SS Eastland rescue efforts, 24 Jul 1915. (Wikipedia) GenDisasters, as of March 2022, no longer appears to be a viable website. This site may be gone, but you can still research disasters [...]
Ancestry has added a great new database with 49 million records for researchers working in 20th- and early-21st-century America: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Entries in this database tend to have more [...]
Today's post is about finding missing German marriage records. I've been reading German parish records pretty steadily for five years now, and encountered my share of records that take a lot of finding and [...]
In honor of the holiday, essential Revolutionary War records links from militaryindexes.com. If your ancestors were American Patriots who broke away from Britain, here is some one-stop shopping on American Revolutionary War Records. Revolutionary War [...]
