Tag Archives: Family: Müller / Miller (Prussia)

This week’s challenge: Play with Google Maps. This is a helpful tool for determining the locations of addresses in your family history. Where your ancestral homestead once stood may now be a warehouse, a parking lot or a field. Perhaps the house is still there. When you input addresses in Google Maps, don’t forget to use the Satellite View and Street View options for perspectives that put you were right there where your ancestors once stood. If you’ve used this tool before, take sometime and play with it again. Push […]

This is a Valentine’s Day card from my grandmother, Marie ROTTMAN Miller, to my grandfather, Harold MILLER.

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

Part of my next assignment is to create a research plan.  We are to pick a problem from our own genealogy and develop a research plan around that problem.  I’ve blogged (see related posts) about my second great-grandfather in the past, and two of those recent posts have been a research plan of sorts.  I debated whether I wanted to do the assignment on this problem, or chose another problem to tackle.

This is a follow-up to my Finding Emil post from last month. I haven’t really be able to figure out much since that post, but I’ve found some more information that may eventually help, including a real photo postcard in the box of photos from my aunt. While I was at the Illinois Archives a few weeks ago, I pulled a few death certificates.  One was for John SEVERING, who was Hulda WACH Miller’s second husband.  And working on a hunch, I pulled one for Hermina Severing.  See, I find […]

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, my grandfather, Harold MILLER spent six months building his own home.  It’s a one-of-a-kind that he designed himself and is situated on a large lot in Elmhurst, Illinois.  It’s an all-brick, three-bedroom ranch with a fireplace.  My mother grew up in that house, with her […]

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 free to play with the theme. Do you have postcards depicting places that incorporate the word white (or bianco, blanc etc.)? How about a play on words (e.g. white elephant, it`s not black & white?) You’ve pretty well got carte blanche!

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 can be the gift of talent, it can be the gift of having the photograph itself. The interpretation of gift is yours. Admission is free with every photograph!