Helping the present understand the past
Welcome to Tombstone Tuesday! Today we’re looking at the tombstone of my paternal first cousin, twice removed, Elsa Sophia Altman located in Anselm Lutheran Cemetery. Tombstone of Elsa S. Altman Anselm Lutheran Cemetery, Anselm Ransom, North Dakota Elsa Sophia was the ninth of seventeen children of Robert Altman and Albertina Amelie (Lange) Altman. She had…
Growing up I can remember my grandparents spending hours sitting in front of the microfilm or microfiche readers at the Family History Center in Independence. I would watch them scroll from page to page. Occasionally they would even write something down. For the longest time I wondered what they were doing sitting in front of…
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. Today we’re looking at AK’s Genealogy Research. Annette’s blog was created for the same reason most of the amateur blogs were created – to document her research and progress. And that’s why I love these blogs. Blogs like AK’s Genealogy Research show the ups and downs and successes…
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…