Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about cemetery records and cemeteries, including primary sources documenting deaths and burials and finding grave-sites.
Courtesy New York TimesIn the New York Times today, an interesting article by Bess Lovejoy and Allison C. Meier on the graves of forgotten New Yorkers. Believed to be the largest and most active potter's field in the country, [...]
One-hundred-and-ninety-seven years ago today, a woman known only as the Female Stranger died in Alexandria, Virginia. What little is known about this woman is recounted in Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life that [...]
Hidden Truths: Mapping the City Cemetery in Chicago is a wonderful site by Pamela Bannos, a researcher who was curious about a why there was a large tomb for the Couch family in Lincoln Park. Performing [...]
The Berggren brothers of Sweden were killed “in the usual way” mining iron ore in Ishepeming, Michigan, in 1889. Today’s Tombstone Tuesday is about Lars Erick and Per August and the grief their friends and family [...]
