Helping the present understand the past
It’s Thursday and time for another edition of Around the Town Thursday! We’re still hanging out in Hutchinson for Museum Day Live! but we’ve moved from Strataca – Kansas Underground Salt Museum to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center! Mercury-Redstone Rocket located outside the Cosmosphere’s main entrance Since D1 and I were already in Hutchinson…
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It’s time for Tombstone Tuesday again. We aren’t straying far from last week’s spotlight. Today we’re looking at my second great-grandfather, Julius Ferdinand Altman. Tombstone of Julius Ferdinand Altman Anselm Lutheran Cemetery in Anselm, Ransom, North Dakota Julius was the fifth of ten children of Christian Gottlieb Altman and Maria Elizabeth (Neubauer) Altman. He had…
Last week we talked a little bit about genealogy basics and how to get started. In that post I touched on some different records available for genealogical use. The next few posts are going to discuss what those records are and what information can be extracted from them. The first records we talked about were…
It’s Friday again, which brings us to another edition of Follow Friday! Today I’m highlighting Jenny Lanctot’s blog, Are My Roots Showing? Now, I have to admit the original reason I chose to look at Jenny’s blog was because of the blog’s title. It’s a cute title and I giggled as I pictured a woman…
It’s Thursday, who else is excited for Friday eve?! Another Thursday brings us to another Around the Town Thursday post. Today we’re looking at the Strataca – the Kansas Underground Salt Museum. Entrance to the Visitors Center of the Kansas Underground Salt Museum located in Hutchinson, Kansas Once a year the Smithsonian Magazine hosts an…
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