Helping the present understand the past
The last three weeks we’ve talked about birth, marriage and death records. These three types of vital records are the records most genealogists think about when you say the words “vital records”. But there’s a fourth type of vital record that isn’t immediately thought of: divorce records. Obviously divorce records aren’t going to exist for…
TGIF! I hope you’re as excited about the weekend as I am. Friday means another edition of Follow Friday and today we’re looking at the blog Ascending the Stairs. Rachelle’s blog chronicling her genealogy research is an interesting read and her post Just another clue, that will lead you to another clue and to another…
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve talked about birth records and marriage records, which can be used in your genealogy. Today I want to talk about death records. Before getting started I want to rewind to last week’s post about marriage records. In that post I neglected to mention a valuable piece of information. …
I’ve mentioned before that I like to frequent estate sales. There are always interesting items to be found and as I wander through the sales I often wonder what the person who owned the items being sold was like. I’ve brought D1 and most-wonderful-mother-in-law to “the dark side” with me and they have begun going…
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…