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.
The tip for this Tuesday is so transparently obvious I'm probably outing myself as duh-humb. But here goes. I do a lot of searching for death notices in Chicago newspapers. In fact, paid death notices [...]
Birth and Baptism of Florentina Mathilde Braun (1814-1891) Today's Surname Saturday post is about one of those good news/bad news genealogy days. Good: I found the birth and baptism of Florentine Mathilde [...]
A Trip Down Market Street is an eight-minute short film thought for years to have been filmed in September, 1905, on Market Street in San Francisco. A Trip Down Market Street is slice-of-life short [...]
Today’s Tombstone Tuesday is about Wyatt Anderson DANIEL, who died in Uravan, Colorado, in 1942. It’s also about unheralded loss, synchronicity, and wonders of genealogy on the Internet. My mother-in-law died long before I met my [...]
