Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for this week is to: Determine who your most recent unknown ancestor is – the one that you don’t even know his or her name. Summarize what you know about his or her family, including resources that you have searched and the resources you should search but haven’t searched [...]
[Continue reading…]US Navy Muster Rolls
5 June 2011 By
![USS Shangri-La, 10 Oct 1946, Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.](http://www.zalewskifamily.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/richard-101946.jpg){kind=small}
Ancestry just recently add a massive collection of U.S. Navy Muster Rolls from 1938-1949. My grandfather, Richard Zalewski, served with the Navy from about 1940 to 1946. Here is their description: This database contains U.S. Navy muster rolls and associated reports of changes for U.S. Navy enlisted personnel who served on U.S. Navy ships or [...]
[Continue reading…]Military Monday: Arthur Thielke
9 May 2011 By
This week’s Military Monday post is my great-grandfather’s World War II Draft Registration from the so-called, Old Man’s Draft.
[Continue reading…]Henry & Margaret Stearns
21 April 2011 By
Today I received another great email that two more of my ancestor’s headstones were found and photographed by a friendly Find-A-Grave volunteer. I don’t remember when I requested these, but it’s nice to finally know where they are located. Though, it’s interesting to see that their headstone spells their name Sterns, instead of Stearns. Click [...]
[Continue reading…]Where Am I?
18 April 2011 By
You’re at the right place, don’t worry. I decided to put together a new template since I felt I didn’t have a lot of customization options on the last one without tearing it apart. I built this one from the ground up, so while it may not be full of zazz, it allows me complete [...]
[Continue reading…]Does Facebook Hate Your Blog?
16 April 2011 By
My wife, over at “Tales From the Nursery” posted a great article on some of the things Facebook may do to your blog posts. Two interesting things about Facebook has come to my attention: Facebook hates busy bloggers and keeps trying to hide us from our fans. It’s nothing person, but it’s what appears to [...]
[Continue reading…]Slownik Geograficzny
10 April 2011 By
One of the things you need to do once you track down the origin of your Polish ancestors, is to search for an entry for the location in the Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (or Geographic Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Countries.) According to a description of it on the [...]
[Continue reading…]Way Back Wednesday: Agnes
6 April 2011 By
A photo of my great-grandmother, Agnes (BRAATZ) CORRIGAN. If I had to take a guess, I’d say the photo was taken around 1904-05 since she looks to be about 1-2 years old.
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