Category Archives: Personal Research

I have many brick walls, but this one is kinda tricky.  Feel free to weigh in. Here’s what I know: My great-great-grandparents were Emil MILLER and Hulda WACH.  Both were born in Germany in immigrated to the U.S.  They were married in Chicago, Cook, Illinois on 8 August 1886. [1]  Based on the marriage license, Emil was 23 and Hulda was 18, which makes their estimated year of birth 1863 and 1868 respectively.

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Our friend, Smallest Leaf over at Small-leaved Shamrock, inquired about how I gathered the information for my new “this week’s family events” posts.  So I thought I’d put together a quick tutorial on how I’m doing it in hopes it can help her and others out.

Taking a cue from Thomas MacEntee’s “On This Day” posts at his blog Destination: Austin Family, I am starting a regular post called “Family Events.”  Instead of doing this for each day like Thomas does, I am going to post on Sunday’s for the upcoming week.  So, here’s the debut of “Family Events!”

The theme for the 55th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is Show & Tell.  I’ve been doing some digging into my paternal grandfather, specifically his time overseas during WWII, so I thought it appropriate to “show” some of these WWII artifacts and “tell” a complementary story. his story is by no means complete.  I have much more digging and uprooting to do, but I wanted to share what I have so far. Enjoy! John Francis CAHILL (1922-1984) (opens a PDF)

Here is a PDF of the bio:  Mini-Bio: Harold L. MILLER (1918-1982)  

The back-to-school edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture is upon us. The challenge, as I understand it, is to make a research plan related to our Irish roots. The Irish side of my family is one I have not spent much time on lately, due in part to a brick wall with my ggg-grandparents. That being said, I fully accept the challenge to make a plan, and of course, follow through on it in the months to come. So…here’s the plan…