Information, tips, and other interesting finds on this personal journey
You wish I would just make a post with everything I know in it, but that's not really the case here. This is related to listing everything I know about a specific subject, though. The last week or so I spent some time overhauling my Everything I Know collection of genealogy sites. A basic … [Read more...]
While doing genealogy research, I end up going to Wikipedia a lot to do many things from finding locations of cities in Europe to finding which county a city is in. It takes a few steps to browse to Wikipedia, then to the English version, and then try to find my entry. Google Chrome and Mozilla … [Read more...]
I have sometimes thought about this question. Why does genealogy interest me so much? I was never really much into history classes. I usually did enough in them just to get by, even in college when I was already doing some genealogy research. I remember being bored out of my skull in my US History … [Read more...]
I haven't been posting much lately since I haven't had a lot of time for research. The holidays are busy with work and..well..holiday stuff. There are a few other things going on that are making it hard to find the time. I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holidays and a wonderful start to 2012. … [Read more...]
I am participating in this week's "Sunday's Obituary" with my great-great grandfather's obituary. I'm told that he received a larger obituary since he worked for the city of Milwaukee. From The Milwaukee Journal on Saturday, August 9, 1941. FRANK ZALEWSKI Frank Zalewski, 82, of 2630 N. Buffum … [Read more...]
After some research, I think I've traced the marriage of my great-great grandparents, Frank Zalewski & Anna Lindner, to Parafia św. Barbary w Świętem (or the Parish of St. Barbara at Święte.) According to a translation of their Polish Wikipedia entry: The parish was founded in about 1300 … [Read more...]
I recently took another shot at translating an entry from the Slownik Geograficzny. This time I worked on translating the entry for Święte, which is the town where my great-great grandparents were married and some of their family had lived. Here is my translation. You can find the original … [Read more...]
I thought I'd participate in this week's Sunday's Obituary by transcribing the obituary of my great-great grandmother, Augusta (LUEDTKE) LAST, who lived to be 100-years-old. It was from a July 18, 1963 Ozaukee County newspaper. MRS. AUGUSTA LAST Mrs. Augusta Last died Sunday morning, July 14, … [Read more...]
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