There’s a lot of hilarious genealogy humor floating around the internet, here are ten finds that made us laugh the loudest. 1. General Relativity is a Breeze 2. How Will You Be Remembered? 🙂 3. It’s the Truth …
Genealogy Humor: 10 Comic Finds That Made Us Laugh Out Loud .
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research recently made documents public from a rare collection of previously lost Jewish Holocaust-era literary and religious materials. This collection, which totals over 170,000 pages, has never before been published.
Occupations are one of the most coveted gems of genealogy research — they give us a glimpse in to the daily lives of our ancestors in a way that few other raw details can. But if you’ve spent some time digging through old …
10 Common 19th Century Occupations That You’re Not Likely to See Today .
Mom did the milking, since Dad didn’t like working with the twelve cows. We sold the cream but not milk—we didn’t have the cooling required for milk. The man picked up the cream once a week. We had real butter at home, and real homemade bread in our school lunches—which we took with us to school every day if we wanted to eat—no cafeteria in one room schools!
At school we had a recess at 10:30 and 2:30, and a one-hour lunch break at noon. Reading was my favorite subject. I remember what an awful time I had with long division, though! I could do short division, but not long… We played anti-over, where we threw a ball over the school house, and “ducky on the rock.”
Here are 15 of our favorite quotes about family history. We hope you enjoy them! 1. Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a …
More died from flu than from bullets that year… That was the sad truth in America in 1918. World War I was raging, but so was an influenza epidemic like the world had never seen. Theodore Peterson—my great uncle Ted—was an engineering student at the University of Nebraska when duty called. He never made it to Europe.
Thank you to Andrew Chapman, editor of Discover Your Ancestors, for sharing this news about their annual print issue. The 4th annual print edition of Discover Your Ancestors is a unique collection of original articles, written by experts, on a …
Thank you to the family history research site Crestleaf for contributing this guest post. When most people think of genealogy, they tend to think of an older demographic or those who have ample time on their hands to conduct family history …
I used to be church historian at the church where I grew up. One summer I decided to read all the board minutes, starting at the beginning—1858. Not far into the project, my eyes were drawn to the word “alcoholic”— and I knew I had a story.