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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]