Labor Day
On this holiday we celebrate the American worker and his or her contribution to our American life, but the holiday was actually born as a way to appease workers after a brutal crackdown on the workers and the union during …
Category: Miscellaneous
September Genealogy To-Do List
Research * Source all O’Shaughnessy findings so I can look at what I know and be ready to share it with a new contact. * Continue to search for and correspond with Scheier living relatives – send a message to …
Another Ruie’s Story
The following is an excerpt from the transcription of an interview between my mother and Ruhama Brown Fagley dated 26 Sep 1984. Ruhama gave a brief history of the Salt and Ely family relationsips. “My mother was a cousin of …
Who is Morris Kessler–the 1940 Census Strikes Again?
If I had known that the 1940 census would be this interesting I would have started looking at it a lot sooner. The last piece I posted for this blog was about my husband’s family’s appearance in the 1940 census …
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You Found What? You Found it Where??
I was happily listening to a Genealogy Guys podcast as I drove to work the other day, and my attention was particularly caught by an email they read and discussed briefly toward the end. The email was from a guy …