Helping the present understand the past
Today is Veterans Day and today’s post is dedicated to all those who have served and all those who are currently serving. Thank you all for your service and sacrifice! Today being Veterans Day, you may notice that some people are wearing poppies today. Do you know the significance of the poppy on Veterans Day? …
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. In today’s spotlight is Begin with “Craft” a wonderful blog about Valerie’s genealogy journey. Valerie’s post on Expanding My Research Comfort Zone: Visiting A County Courthouse really caught my attention. I haven’t had the opportunity to do any research in a county courthouse so I was very interested…
Welcome to another edition of Tombstone Tuesday. Today we’re spotlighting the husband of my first great-grand-aunt Augusta Christine (Altman) Froemke, Carl August Froemke, Jr. Tombstone of Carl August Froemke, Jr. Anselm Lutheran Cemetery in Anselm, Ransom, North Dakota Carl August Froemke, Jr. was the child of Carl August Froemke and Henrietta Elisa (Schwarz) Froemke. It’s…
Census records. Every genealogist uses them at one point or another. They’re a great source of information as long as you keep in mind the possibility for errors to be found within the census records. The United States has taken a federal census every 10 years since 1790. The first census enumeration contained a limited…
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday! Today we’re looking at the blog Ancestral Breezes. Jen’s blog focuses on telling the stories of her past, her family and throwing in some education for good measure. And she does a good job at all of it. Her post on My first look at the Digital Public…