The Breitenstein Book is Done
The Breitenstein Family: From Oberotterbach, Bavaria to Louisville, Kentucky The Breitenstein Family: From Oberotterbach, Bavaria to Louisville, Kentucky; Four Generations – Descendants of Jacob and Margaret (Gerber) Breitenstein The book’s not quite 300 pages, including an every person index, footnotes, bibliography, chart, table,...
Read moreGenealogists are NEVER really finished!
Life Goes On Genealogists can never be done because life goes on; babies are born, grow up, get married, divorced, have their own children, and then ultimately pass away. I sent my Breitenstein book off to the publisher a...
Read moreHow to Choose What to Include and What to Exclude
When You Are Writing a Family History or Genealogy, What do you put in and what do you leave out? Family histories and genealogies are filled with names, dates, and places, especially for births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. They...
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Walk A Mile in Their Shoes
Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in 1954 and several days later Diane Leather broke the 5 minute mile for women. Huge accomplishments, but how are those times germane to genealogical research? Chances are, you can walk a...
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Five of Nine Breitenstein Brothers
Mara (Seirp) Breitenstein had an album with this photograph of her husband, John Louis Breitenstein as a little boy. It is one of many pictures taken on the farmhouse porch. John is the little boy on the horse. Mara...
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Reunion Yearbook for Okolona High School
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,...
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Yearbooks as a Genealogical Resource
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...
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Education, Education, Education
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.,...
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Ultimate Genealogical Test
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...
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Under the Name of Sanders
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...
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