Genealogy Sands of Time
Today a meditation on the genealogy sands of time. Since our trip to my great-grandmother's village in Sweden was postponed in August, I've been redoing my home office instead. Every.single.thing in this room, used [...]
Today a meditation on the genealogy sands of time. Since our trip to my great-grandmother's village in Sweden was postponed in August, I've been redoing my home office instead. Every.single.thing in this room, used [...]
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 is a wonderful social history resource. During that four-year period, writers interviewed and gathered vivid life histories from Americans who lived at the turn [...]
A post today about Labor Day – America in Color from 1939-1943. This online exhibition from the Library of Congress celebrates Americans at work. It features images from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War [...]
Today's post is about mapping 1890 German ancestry in the U.S. The 1890 census is long lost. But maps and statistics compiled by the Census Bureau using 1890 data survive. The results are contained [...]