Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about obituaries and death notices, including finding historic newspapers, and searching newspapers, newspaper indexes, digital newspapers
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 [...]
How to Write an Obituary a Genealogist Will Love. I didn't know Harry Stamps, but I wish I had. Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, foodie, natty dresser, and accomplished traveler, died on Saturday, March 9, 2013. [...]
The tip for this Tuesday is so transparently obvious I'm probably outing myself as duh-humb. But here goes. I do a lot of searching for death notices in Chicago newspapers. In fact, paid death notices [...]
Today’s Tombstone Tuesday is about Wyatt Anderson DANIEL, who died in Uravan, Colorado, in 1942. It’s also about unheralded loss, synchronicity, and wonders of genealogy on the Internet. My mother-in-law died long before I met my [...]