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.
The Visualizing Emancipation project maps the end of slavery during the Civil War. This project comes from the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab. Historians and archivists there combined maps and data, with funding [...]
Found under the innocuous headline Society News, this 1934 German visitor to Milwaukee praises Germany's new leader. Sometimes searching in newspapers is not so serendipitous. Offered without further comment, except to say that this [...]
Today's post is about newspaper serendipity in 1884 Brooklyn. I love newspaper research. Even in those somewhat seasick days of cranking a microfilm reader, reading old newspapers has always been my jam. And I [...]
Today's observance of the World War I Armistice centenary makes me think of my paternal great-uncle, John Loe. Uncle John served on transport troop ships during World War I. On November 11, 1918, he [...]
