Family History Nuggets

I think that a good screenplay could be developed around the life of my 2xgreat-grandmoteher Anna Helena (Schmitt) Fitzler. In May of 1858, ...

One of the things that frustrates me the most in working with my ancestors is trying to determine the spelling of names of some of my German...

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...

Another German surname. There's a few more of them on the way. 1. Kevin Joseph HUIGENS 2. Joseph Anthony HUIGENS 3. Shirley Ann OGDEN 4....

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...

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 week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Imp...

1) Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with two degrees of separation? That means "you knew an ancestor, who ...

This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to use a great-grandfather's age as a seed to calculate a semi-random number and write ...

Stop me if you've heard this before: So I went into ancestry.com and there was this little leaf. Yup, I went last night to gather info f...

Yesterday's prompt for the Fearless Female Women's History blog challenge was: March 9 — Take a family document (baptismal certifi...

Today's prompt for the Fearless Female Women's History blog challenge is: March 4 — Do you have marriage records for your grandpar...