Julie's Genealogy & History Hub

The only thing I know about my third great-grandmother, Anne HALE, is that she married Michael CAHILL on 30 January 1855 in Thomastown, Kilkenny, Ireland. I have no idea when she was born, when she died, or who her parents (or other relatives) are…she’s a […]

A big congratulations to all the winners of the Southern California Genealogical Society’s 2012 GENEii Family History Writers Contest.  Below is the list of winners in each of the two contest categories.  Each of the winning entries will be published in The Searcher, which is […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things I’ve found.   New-to-Me Blogs Ahnentafel: Genealogically speaking… Searching for Ancestors and Stories!, Pam Stephens Online Articles Evidence Gleaned From One Obituary, Becky Higgins New Born Child Kidnapped in 1964 and “Returned” to Parents a Year Later is Not Their […]

I do have a few ties to Ohio, and thanks to the various record collections available through FamilySearch, I was able to make this discovery. If you have family in Ohio, I highly recommend using the record collections at FamilySearch.  There are so many wonderful […]

For 26 weeks I will take you on a family history journey through the alphabet, one letter at a time.  I have decided that each post will be educational in nature, focusing on topics related to resources, methodology, tools, etc.  Although the challenge is complete, […]

Cute little photograph of Kenneth and Florence, probably siblings.  Too bad there’s no surname or location to work with.  It looks like it was cut out of an old scrapbook (the one’s with the black paper that resembles construction paper).  It’s glued on there pretty […]

Mary BRAUN is my second great-grandmother. She was born 19 November 1855 in or near Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany. I believe that she and her husband Carl STOFFEL were married in Germany and arrived in the US together in 1884. They settled in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, […]

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