Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about using primary sources for genealogy research. Primary sources are created at the time of an event, such as birth, marriage, and death records.
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 [...]
Interested in mapping newspapers in Chronicling America collection? An interactive data visualization project at Stanford maps locations of historic newspapers in the Chronicling America collection. How cool is that? The International German Genealogy Conference [...]
