January 2015 – Barbara K. Henritze Research

Okolona High School Reunion 1930-1951, Jefferson Co., Kentucky

Reunion Yearbook for Okolona High School

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 30, 2015

Jefferson Co., Kentucky – Okolona ut in Okolona, a rural part Jefferson Co. in the first half of the twentieth century, many first and second cousins, attended Okolona High School between 1927 and 1951, including those named Kihnley, Besson,...

Yearbooks as a Genealogical Resource

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 19, 2015

College yearbooks place a person firmly in a time and place with a purpose (hopefully). Margaret Mitchell describes Stuart and Brent Tarleton’s college experiences and that of their older brothers, Boyd and Tom in Gone With the Wind. They kept getting...

Education, Education, Education

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 15, 2015

More than forty-five years ago, my grandmother sent my mom a page from the Citizen Tribune, 28 March 1967, page 3. It was a story about her great-aunts teaching preschool, which was kindergarten for some, in Morristown, Hamblen Co.,...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 13, 2015

Children, even adult children, grieve when their parents pass away. When bad moms pass away, her children probably grieve but I also think there might be a spec of relief. I have friends who continually say their moms didn’t...

Wedding gifts partial list Louisville Ky Aug. 1953

Ultimate Genealogical Test

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 6, 2015

I recently came across my grandmother’s file of papers from my parents’ wedding. The costs of the cakes, reception food and drink, and dress were all in this file along with the lists of presents received at the shower...

Under the Name of Sanders

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 3, 2015

If research subjects are not findable under their own names, try their alternates, initials, nicknames, pseudonyms, nom de plume, pen name, alias, nom de guerre, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) name, or performance name. (Two examples of performance names are...

The Science Fair is Coming

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 3, 2015

One December week, my kindergarten daughter’s Friday Folder included an eleven page two sided single spaced instruction handout for the upcoming school wide science fair. I recycled it. While she could read, my feeling was five year olds and...

Ed, Mike, Theo, John, Lorenz, Herm, Carl and Emil Breitenstein in Jefferson Co., Ky.

Eight of Nine Breitenstein Brothers Photo ca. 1906

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 2, 2015

I am in the midst of proofreading The Descendants of Jacob and Margaret Gerber Breitenstein of Louisville. As a break, because proofreading is very hard work, I came across a photograph of the family of their seventh son, Michael...

Thomas Floyd Henritze, Price Henritze, Walter Moore Henritze, Helen Elizabeth Henritze, William Welch Henritze, next row, Welch Hudson Henritze, Louise Noble Fairchild Henritze, Thomas Lynch Henritze and Frederick Cleveland Henritze

Henritze Christmas 1906

By Barbara K. Henritze
on January 2, 2015

My dad’s cousin, Dave, sent me some photographs in 1991 of various parts of the T. L. Henritze family, his first four sons, some of his in-laws and a Christmas shot taken in 1906 in Welch, West Va.

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