Julie's Genealogy & History Hub

Randy’s challenge this go-around is a celebrity look-alike collage available through My Heritage.

As a member of the DAR, I’ve had access to these databases, but now they are available to the public.  I actually work on two of the projects: Descendants (entering DAR application data) and GRC (indexing all names in DAR genealogy books). You can access […]

Back in May, I posted about a box of photographs my aunt had given me.  Today, I finally had some time to go through them.  I found quite a bit of photos I had never seen, including the ones featured in this post. In 1949, […]

The theme for the 6th edition of A Festival of Postcards is:  White. So this is your chance to share any of your black and white postcards, or colour postcards featuring white (think white sands and snow, White Cliffs of Dover etc.). As always, feel […]

The theme for the 19th edition of Smile for the Camera is:  The Gift. It is the holiday season and a time for giving. So give Smile readers the gift of sharing, sharing a family photograph. It can be a gift given or received, it […]

While I was at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, I requested the book With The Colors From Aurora 1917, 1918, 1919, as I knew there was a reference to a Ferdinand Henry Schwartz (obtained from an index).  I quickly found the reference, […]

On Saturday, November 21st, I will be attending my first Illinois State Genealogical Society board meeting as the official recording secretary.  I am very excited to be serving on the board with many wonderful genealogists. Because we meeting in Springfield, it’s also the perfect opportunity […]

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time over the last few weeks exploring the city directories available at Footnote, now Fold3.  The first few days I was frustrated as my searches weren’t turning up anything.  But then I realized why, and have been able […]