Conflicting Sources: Compare, Contrast and Conclude
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,...
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Consequences for Kids
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...
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Newspapers: Research and Sources
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...
Read moreIndex to F. K. Huntzinger, St. Luke’s Records, Vol. 2, 9 May 1889 to 31 Dec. 1900, Reading, Berks Co., Pa.
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,...
Read moreIndex to St. Thomas United Church of Christ, Vol. 2, 2 Jan. 1923 to 7 Feb. 1960, Reading, Berks Co., Pa.
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 –...
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Index to Burial Records of Aulenbach Cemetery, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, 1879-1959
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...
Read moreI Didn’t Touch that Newspaper
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...
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Genealogical Quilt Books
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...
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Marriages or Unions – Proof in the Census?
Marriage records are not all retrievable. When you are frustrated about the lack of information regarding a marriage; when civil marriage records can not be located, sometimes the reason is easy, obvious and still unsolvable: The Big Lie to...
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Favorites – Genealogical Research Libraries
Favorite Top Ten Genealogical Research Libraries in the United States My favorite research libraries in order from East to West: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. D.A.R. Library, Washington, D.C. Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland Allen County Public...
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