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.
Updates to Chronicling America now bring the total to 5,206,652 pages of newspapers available. Not familiar with this free site sponsored by the Library of Congress and NEH? Visit the site at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov to take advantage of [...]
The Registry of the American Soldier is a crowd-sourced archive about those who served in the U.S. Army. Staff at the National Museum of the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, launched this online project [...]
Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates is a new exhibition from the National Archives: Attachments tells the stories of 31 men, women, and children who found themselves at the gateways to America between [...]
Finding Hans Loe, my Norwegian great-grandfather, is very satisfying, especially in light of my floundering beginning efforts and not knowing enough about Norwegian records. Is there anything more satisfying that figuring out primary source records in [...]
