Family History Nuggets

Both my paternal and maternal grandparents lost their first child only two days after they were born. With this blog post, I am lighting two...

My great-grandfather Frank J. Kain (pamapa) was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Creighton, NE. I know this thanks to the book "K...

 I need to get caught up with the 52 Ancestors prompts. I plan to do several this week until I can get caught up. We'll see how this goe...

Day 5, Wednesday, Oct. 23 Before leaving O'Neill, we stopped off at the quilt store so I could drop off the family history of our p...

Last night I was looking for Nebraska newspaper archives to see where I might be able to get access to news papers for Knox County or the to...

I found my great-grandparents, John and Mary Huigens in Creighton, NE on ancestry.com: While looking for them, I also found the families ...

I've identified the eleven ancestors that I want to look up on Tuesday. 2. Joseph A. Huigens, Jr 3. Shirley A, Ogden 4. Joseph A. Hui...

Week 13. Local Societies: Local genealogical and historical societies are the lifeblood of genealogy. Members and volunteers give their tim...

These are my grandmother's younger siblings. This picture was probably taken at the same time as last week's . In this one, left t...

In the back is Richard Kain. The others, left to right, are Nora, Francis and Mary Julia Kain. Mary Julia is my grandmother; the others a...

This is the last photo I have of the entire Huigens family of Creighton, NE. I'd guess it was taken about 1912. The sons in the back r...

This is the grave marker for my great-grandparents, my father's maternal grandparents. They died when he was still an infant. They are...

Watching the Jerome Bettis article on WDYTYA tonight reminded me about the Library of Congress newspaper archive, Chronicling America . I we...

This week I'm posting a picture of the grave marker for my great-grandparents. John Huigens was born in Illinois during the Civil War ...

Where did my great-grandmother, Mary (Fitzler) Huigens die in Feb. 1949? I 'm not really sure. I sent away for a Nebraska death certific...

This is a picture of my Grandpa Joe with his brothers and sisters. It was probably taken some time after their parents had died in 1949. P...