Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
This post is about unusual records and my great-grandfather Chicago tailor Hans Loe. Like so many European immigrants to American cities, my great-grandfather worked as a tailor. His brother cut patterns for a living. [...]
Have you discovered immigrant ancestors detained at Ellis Island? Between 1880-1920, more than 20 million immigrants arrived at Ellis Island. The inspections they endured are well documented. But what happened to those detained at [...]
Is your ancestor's job included in these 19th-century occupational portraits at the Library of Congress? The Prints and Photographs Division highlights these images in the article "Profiling Portraits: Occupational Portraits of the 19th Century." [...]
The Western State Lunatic Asylum and Martha Saul is my follow-up post to a 2010 Madness Monday post about my husband's great-great grandmother. In 1860, she was a wife and mother to five children; [...]
