Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Let's celebrate the first Valentine and some English genealogy in today's holiday post. A love letter from 1477 (above) contains the first known use of the word Valentine. In this 500+-year-old love letter, 17-year-old Margery [...]
Update May 2022: Very sorry to report that the excellent search engine Yippy is no longer available. While I research metasearch alternatives, consider Startpage. This search engine from The Netherlands protects privacy. Startpage supplies [...]
I have some thoughts about SLIG 2019. Since I returned home, I've been so intent on what I learned at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), that it's taken a bit to process [...]
Finding my Prussian 5G-Grandparents at SLIG 2019 caused a huge happy dance. The SLIG 2019 German class taught me how to translate entries in a key German resource: the 219-volume Deutsches Geschlechterbuch, (more commonly known [...]
