Helping the present understand the past
A brick wall. Every genealogist has one at one time or another. My genealogy is no different. With Constitution Day being this week (September 17 to be exact) my thoughts have been centering on my brick wall. You see, the Daughters of the American Revolution work very hard to celebrate Constitution Week (for obvious reasons)…
TGIF and welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. Today we’re looking at A Patient Genealogist. Devon’s writing reads like she’s simply conversing with another person. Her post on Is this German Scan Readable for Translation? caught my interest right away. Of course, there were several other posts of hers that interested me as well,…
It’s Tuesday again and you know what that means! Time for another Tombstone Tuesday. Continuing our journey through Anselm Lutheran Cemetery, today’s tombstone belongs to two of my paternal cousins, twice removed, Laura and Clara Altman. Tombstone of Laura and Clara Altman Anselm Lutheran Cemetery in Anselm, Ransom, North Dakota Clara was the second of…
I typically spend my weekends as most others do: running errands, working around the house, watching a little t.v. and other mundane tasks that never seem to get done during the week. But I also allot a bit of time to indulge in things that I enjoy doing and might otherwise get pushed to the…
It’s Friday again (and who doesn’t love that?) so here’s another edition of Follow Friday! Today we’re going to look at a3Genealogy. A brief disclosure: a3Genealogy is a professional genealogy consultant, but in my opinion, Kathleen also writes a great blog post. Her post on Tips to Researching WWI War Brides focused on a subject…