Ruie’s Story
In continuing to clean out a cardboard box of pictures, albums, and papers that mostly came from my great-aunt Susan, I started thinking about her. She was a big influence in my father’s life and I am curious about her …
Gertrude’s Story
I wrote recently about my grandfather’s brother, Sam Silver. Sam was a handsome man who served in the Spanish-American War and disappeared, both from our family history and from the census and other written documents until reappearing in the 1920 …
September Genealogy To-Do List
Research * Look for live relatives in the Scheier line. * Figure out Sweet line; what do I have from the Lillian Towner Allen collection? Organization * box of Salt pictures and album pretty much scanned [I had my own …
Who Are These Scheiers and Are We Related to Them?
Today, while avoiding the household tasks I should be doing, I have been making a spreadsheet to show the city directory I collected last week in Washington. I listened to a couple of talks about using city directories to add …
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Pat and Judy Go to Washington–the Aftermath
Pat and I spent last week in the nation’s capital attending the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ annual conference. My brain is full and I am trying to get some organization going so it all doesn’t just spill on …