In Search of the Family Homestead
My sister and I met on a Wednesday, had a quick lunch, and took off in my car for the Catskill area of New York to seek the family homestead. She had driven down to my house from hers in …
Category: Miscellaneous
August Genealogy To-Do List
Research * switch gears to Dan’s family lines to get ready for the IAJGS conference in Washington, DC. * figure out what I need to get from the DAR Library and from the mother-ship NARA. * decide whether there is …
It Must Have been Something I Ate
The Carnival of Genealogy theme this month is food. This week’s post is a slight reworking of a post of the same name that I published in May of 2009. I need a hoagie, from Lee’s, the Cheltenham, …
Salt or Salts, What’s in a Name?
I had a comment from another Salt about my brick wall Edward and thought I would follow up on a few thoughts and finds. Interestingly, my commenter also has an Edward Salt who is a dead-end for her. I should …
Too Many Steins
I have lots of family pictures, boxes and boxes of them. About fifteen years ago I actually had the foresight to sit down with my mother and ask her to help me label these old photos. In the course of …