March 2012 – Barbara K. Henritze Research

Easter is a Good Time to Explore Family Traditions

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 30, 2012

Easter is April 8th this year, a joy, a holiday. Holidays create family atmosphere like nothing else. A break from routine, holidays are a time of gathering of the clan and rejuvenating of spirits. Some holidays are set dates:...

What was the Address of that House?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 25, 2012

I am the only person in my immediate family interested in family history, genealogy or research. However, all of us are interested in playing Can You Top This, or I remember when we lived in…, Do You remember when...

1850 Virginia Washington Abingdon federal census for Peter E. B. C. Henritze

Conflicting Sources: Compare, Contrast and Conclude

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 20, 2012

A distant cousin, Kim Livaditis, recently asked me about P.E.B.C. Henritze of Abingdon, Washington Co., Virginia and specifically about his second wife and daughter. I have researched nearly every known Henritze descendant of Balthaser Henritze and Dorothea (Rapp) Henritze,...

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff

Consequences for Kids

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 15, 2012

Consequences Aren’t Always Punishments So many conversations between parents and children now involve the word consequences. There will be consequences later for that action, behavior, choice. Consequences aren’t always punishments and certainly aren’t always bad. Laura Numeroff wrote two...

Newspapers: Research and Sources

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 15, 2012

Researching Newspapers Titles, Dates and Sources Knowing a newspaper existed in a specific town or city is the first step to finding copies, reading, researching the time and place needed for information about specific ancestors or projects. Knowing the...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 14, 2012

St. Luke’s Records, Vol. 2, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania 9 May 1889 to 31 Dec. 1900 Rev. Franklin Krick Huntzinger Introduction When researching family history, church records have a great deal of value, births, baptisms, communions, confirmations, marriages,...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 14, 2012

St. Thomas United Church of Christ, Reading, Berks Co., Pa. Vol. 2, 2 Jan. 1923- 7 Feb. 1960. Baptisms 2 Jan. 1923 – 31 Jan. 1960. Deaths 13 Jan. 1923 – 7 Feb. 1960. Admissions 15 Jan. 1923 –...

Index to Burial Records of Aulenbach Cemetery, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, 1879-1959

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 13, 2012

Aulenbach Cemetery in Mount Penn, together with Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading, are two of the largest older cemeteries in the greater Reading area. What follows is one of many indexes of the burials in Aulenbach, alphabetically, from the...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 10, 2012

Researching Black Newspapers The process by which I added papers to my checklist was simple. It was source by source, list by list, one by one. Around twenty years ago while researching my book, Bibliographic Checklist of African American...

Treasures In The Trunk by Mary Bywater Cross

Genealogical Quilt Books

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 4, 2012

Genealogical Quilt Books Luckily for us, my mother gave us a beautiful quilt as a wedding present, made by her grandmother Flora Anna Coogle Armstrong, and great grandmother Minnie Araminta Sibert Coogle. My mother set aside one for each...