Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about Chicago genealogy research, including researching specific ethnicities, finding and using Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois vital records, and more.
For today’s Surname Saturday post I’m choosing the Hann family of Austria and Chicago. I posted the other day about my mysterious great-grandfather, Gottfried Ernst Hann, who died two months before my grandmother was [...]
I don't know how I missed this before, but there's a Cook County Illinois Naturalization Index online. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Archives is producing an online index to 500,000 naturalization [...]
My grandmother at work c. 1912 – Frieda Hann Loe (second from right) worked as a seamstress and tailor most of her life in various Chicago sweatshops. She was born in Chicago in 1896 as [...]
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument was erected at German Waldheim Cemetery in 1893. This impressive monument memorializes the labor activists executed in 1887 by the State of Illinois for the Haymarket Affair three years before. The inscription on the [...]
