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.
Veterans History Project – Veterans Day 2013 might be observed in your family via this excellent project. A project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Veterans History Project "preserves and makes [...]
An updated index to Hamburg passenger lists for 1850-1914 is now available at Ancestry. This is great news. Previously the database only had indexed records from 1887-1914. The additional 37 years have added 800,000 new [...]
One-hundred-and-ninety-seven years ago today, a woman known only as the Female Stranger died in Alexandria, Virginia. What little is known about this woman is recounted in Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life that [...]
Hidden Truths: Mapping the City Cemetery in Chicago is a wonderful site by Pamela Bannos, a researcher who was curious about a why there was a large tomb for the Couch family in Lincoln Park. Performing [...]
