February 9th 1898 - Died - Herman RATHKE - Herman is my 3rd-great-grandfather on my mother's side. He was born 23 Feb 1831 in Germany and immigrated with his family to Wisconsin in 1887. He passed away in Grafton, Ozaukee Co., Wisconsin and is buried at Union Cemetery in Port Washington, Ozaukee … [Read more...]
Follow Friday
5 February 2010 By
Here are some useful posts I've read this week. Elyse at Elyse's Genealogy Blog talks about "Who Do You Think You Are?" coming on NBC in March and how important it is to get the word out. A guest post over at Mountain Genealogists talks about "Preservation and Interpretation of our Ancestor … [Read more...]
Treasure Chest Thursday
4 February 2010 By
My first Treasure Chest Thursday. It seems like this will replace the "Tell Me Thursday" posts I used to do. I compressed that into Wordless Wednesday. I can't guarantee I'll have a post for every Thursday, but I'll try. This is my great-grandfather, Joseph Zalewski's, badge from when he was … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday (Now With Words)
3 February 2010 By
I've decided to start putting the descriptions with my Wordless Wednesday posts instead of posting them the next day. I feel it's sometimes confusing and more work to post the same thing twice rather than just saying it all on one day. I will still call it Wordless Wednesday, since that's the name … [Read more...]
Weekly History: January 31st – February 6th
31 January 2010 By
February 1st 1849 - Born - Ignatz Peter SZULTA - Ignatz is my 3rd-great-grandfather on my father's side. New evidence that I found may actually move his birth date to January 30th. Recently, I had found that Ignatz was born in what is now Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland. He … [Read more...]
Surname Saturday: LAST
30 January 2010 By
No, not a last name, the name LAST. You should see how difficult it is to do any sort of search on this surname. Typing in "last surname" or just "last" into search engines usually gets me a lot more than I need. Sometimes it gives me "Did you mean 'last name'?" It's even tough on genealogy sites … [Read more...]
New Paint
29 January 2010 By
I decided that a new theme was needed. The previous one was nice, but it has been falling behind in some things. The web moves fast. This one gives me more control over certain things and it listed to have been tested and working in the most common browsers (sadly, even IE6, which I wish would die … [Read more...]
Follow Friday
29 January 2010 By
Here are some interesting blog posts that I've run across for this week. Abba-Dad at I Dream of Genea(logy) posts Genealogy - What's the Point? In the post he wonders why people do genealogy. What keeps them going? After reading it, I see two sections that really drive me. "Where do I come from? … [Read more...]
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