Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Researching my Chicago family, I found a devastating death in the now-forgotten 1919 Chicago dirigible crash. On 21 Jul 1919. Marcus Charles Callopy and his colleagues were finishing work for the day. Mark, a [...]
Rates of Travel from New York City helps you calculate how far your ancestors could travel in one day from 1800-1930. Determining rates of travel are especially interesting research questions for genealogists. Did your [...]
"Prefers Jail to Husband" is an arresting headline that led me on another vintage newspaper detour recently. I justify going down these journalistic rabbit holes by saying that they're newspaper serendipity. That's my [...]
Today, the anatomy of a genealogy mistake I made in my tree when I began researching one of my German lines. It’s human nature to blog about all the brilliant stuff we do to [...]
