Genealogy Blog

Sometimes the names are reversed. Nicandro Palumbo lived at 1725 No. Warnock St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1918 when his son Frank passed away. He lived there in 1925 when his death certificate was written and his widow Mary Louisa...

Anthony Palumbo was enumerated in 518 Norris St., Ward 19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1940 census with his wife Mary (Lindsay) Palumbo, two children Charles and Mary, his mother-in-law Theresa Lindsay, and brother-in-law Francis Lindsay.  Anthony was born ca....

Paris as a birthplace would seem to mean France. However, the United States has more than 20 places named Paris, the largest one is the county seat of Lamar Co., Texas. Handwritten records across various repositories could easily confuse...

The Graves Family of Arvada, Colorado John Card Graves wrote and published a set of books about the Graves family, Genealogy of the Graves Family in America, Three Volumes, Buffalo N.Y.: Baker, Jones & Co., 1896. He collected information...

Keith L. Breitenstein graduated from high school in 1933. He was born in 1915 in Kentucky and the number 33 is written on the edge of his graduation card insert. He was my grandparents’ oldest nephew. His first cousin,...

Of all the snapshots, photographs and studio pictures found among my grandmother’s keepsakes, this one was identified on the back. It’s a gravestone. With a tree growing around it. Of someone I don’t know. Thomas Seibert. In Indiana. Wyandott ...

My grandmother married one of nine brothers. Four of the sisters-in-law had birthdays in September and many years they celebrated at the same time. This photograph is not from one of those joint celebrations as only one guest is...

  This photograph labeled “Nancy’s class, Dec. 53 Durrett Jr. High” is likely a 6th or possibly 7th grade class in Jefferson Co., Kentucky. This school was at the intersection of Preston St. Highway and Durrett Lane, just outside...

I have a multitude of different postcards sent to me by friends and relatives. My favorites are the maps and the old linen postcards. If one of your ancestors left a postcard collection, you have a built-in source of home...

This a photo of a third grade class at Prestonia Elementary School, just outside Louisville, Kentucky ca. 1950. The classmates names are not on the back of photo.