And in typical fashion, they skip all of his American ancestors and go back to the immigrant from France, then his father who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, and just wait until later in the episode for the jump back to royalty. The Americans don’t matter at all, it seems. Next up, ...
The Nitty Gritty of Reading Handwritten German Church Records: Helpful Details for the German Researcher by Beccy Martin, professional genealogist If you read Heidi Mathis’s 2021 six-part blog series, “Tracing Your 19th Century German Ancestors,” you are likely feeling ready to go hunt down r...
was partly inspired by fellow Find-A-Graver, Robert David Miller, who has done the same in multiple location cemeteries and who’s data was a great help to me when I traveled multiple hours knowing that I would not have to blindly wonder around cemeteries hoping to find my ancestors. ...
Jennie’s obituary, written many years later, claims that Clara’s “burial location is not known.” There is no marker for Clara among the markers for her parents and grandparents in the Fleming Rural Cemetery, nor is there a marker at the other nearby cemetery where her ancestors are buri...
Our ancestors were apes at that time. The European shoreline was 120 miles inland from today’s coast and dense swamp-forests resembling modern Louisiana clogged coasts and estuaries in Denmark and Germany. Nothing living in its region today is adapted to what will come. Remember those trees in...
(and that of their ancestors) for having the temerity to initiate firstly, national industrial revolutions, which lifted their populations out of poverty, and subsequent to that, an unequally spread global industrial revolution which resulted in billions of people (of all races) being propelled out...
They were living in Brooklyn at the time so there are many records both online and at the municipal archives which I visit twice a year (along with my NYC based grandchildren). With a name like Matilda Anderson, I expected it to be difficult to find her ancestors, but luckily I found ...