It’s 1893. Chicago. Full of ambitious people eager to make their mark. Twenty-five year old Alois, trained in decorative carpentry and paint

Figuring out the day of the week that something happened can be important in genealogy. Here are a couple approaches.

Our family has a photo of the framed wedding invitation of my 2nd great aunt and uncle. It's a charmingly simple one. When I first came

Post your family handwritten letters to celebrate National Handwriting Day.

Recall that in our last blog on Herbert Harschnek, the US family had been searching for any German relatives for decades with no success. Wh

Finding Herbert Harschnek - a little saga of 99 years parted: Starting with Alois Harschnek whom we mentioned in our last post.

Here’s a fun tip for researching relatives, especially 1st generation German ones. The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America: Historic...

Sometimes you think you’ve heard almost every family story (often multiple times), but I’ve been so wonderfully surprised recently....and in

Turns out that these cards were often the early 20th century equivalent of a photo booth at an amusement park.

A family postcard goes from gibberish to treasure with translation - the magic of family genealogical translation!