Newspaper Search Helps Identify Family Photo

A few weeks ago, I discovered digitized copies of newspapers for Cedar Rapids, Iowa at the Digital Archives of the Cedar Rapids Public Library website.  I made several discoveries for my Rottman family that lived near Cedar Rapids.

Orphan Photo #105

This is a photo of three unidentified little boys.  Aren’t they adorable?

Friday Finds – 12/9/11

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Orphan Photo #104

This is a photo of Mary Lydia Webster.  Mary was born on 11 June 1904 at Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio to Willis Vance Webster and Emma Stanton.1  Mary died at the age of 98 on 2 June 2003 at Columbus, Franklin, Ohio.2  She was a school […]

Reader Question – Unidentified Photos

A reader asked the following question in a comment today:  Are there any sites that are strictly for unidentified photos? I’m not really sure if there are any that solely post unidentified photos.  Most websites/blogs I’ve come across have a combination of both identified and […]

Friday Finds – 12/02/11

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

And There She Is…Hulda’s No Longer MIA

I’ve written many times about Emil MILLER and Hulda WACH, both immigrated to the US from Germany and settled in Chicago, where they eventually married.  I knew from notes in family papers that Hulda married a second time, to John Severing, and they had a […]

The Power of Google

Over a year ago, I posted this 16 x 20 portrait of Irvine and Anna Rebecca (Wertz) Bennett.  While I did find living descendants, nobody wanted to claim the portrait.  A few days ago, another researcher, who is working on this Bennett line and revising […]