Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about surnames for genealogy research, including finding surname societies, variant spellings of surnames, and other resources.
Inspectors did not change names at Ellis Island. There. I said it. So have lots of genealogists. But somehow the myth persists decades later that inspectors changed names at Ellis Island. Let's take a [...]
Predominant U.S. Surnames Map comes from National Geographic research. Mina Liu and Oliver Uberti for National Geographic examine the most common surnames across the country: What’s in a Surname? A new view of the United [...]
Sadly, HowManyofMe.com seems to be yet another dead website. I guess dead links happen naturally to a genealogy blogger who stays around more than a decade like I have. But wait! There are alternatives [...]
Finding Hans Loe, my Norwegian great-grandfather, is very satisfying, especially in light of my floundering beginning efforts and not knowing enough about Norwegian records. Is there anything more satisfying that figuring out primary source records in [...]
