Julie's Genealogy & History Hub

Update 10/26/10 – These photos have been reunited with family! These two cabinet cards were taken by Bowman in Ottawa, Illinois, and appear to be a husband and wife from LaSalle County, Illinois.  I am pretty positive that these are the photos for Josiah and […]

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

This is my grandmother’s grammar school diploma, dated 15 June 1934.  She attended high school through her sophomore year, but dropped out when her mother died, so that her older sister could finish high school.

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

Quite some time ago I learned about Scribd from Denise Olsen, who authors the blog Family Matters (now part of Moultrie Creek Gazette).  Scribd is basically an online document repository.  You can upload documents, which can be public or private, and find documents uploaded by […]

It’s been a few weeks since I have posted a new orphan photo.  Don’t worry, I haven’t gone anywhere, I have just been really busy with many things and haven’t had enough time to dedicate to the orphan photos.  I hope to get some new […]

This is a card the my grandmother, Joan Garrison McMAHON made when she was a child.  I found it in her baby book.

The Story I was catching up on my blog reading while waiting for my hair appointment.  I had come across the post Help Find a WW2 Soldier from Illinois over at Olive Tree Genealogy, and just barely started reading it when they called me back […]