by Brandy Heineman | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Family History
Using records, general histories, and literature to glimpse your ancestors’ context Speaking personally, my family history research has a definite weak spot, since I often fail to imagine what can’t be known of specific people’s lives. Since the...
by Brandy Heineman | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog, Family History
Who was Caroline Autler Heinemann? The history Heinemann in America doesn’t say a word about my third great-grandmother’s courage or lack thereof. The basis of everything I know about Caroline Autler Heinemann comes from these lines on page 54: JOHN...
by Brandy Heineman | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Family History
Our family trees don’t always yield their secrets readily, and I’m glad. There’s little as satisfying as ending a six-year-search—or rather, turning a corner for the next leg of the journey. I’ve written about Hamilton Townsend Cornell on this blog plenty of times—how...
by Brandy Heineman | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog, Family History
Now and then, tried and true genealogy resources deliver unexpected gifts. Like “unorthodox” census data. You know, where the enumerator squeezed in some extra tidbit, or the person supplying the information offered a TMI overshare way before that...
by Brandy Heineman | Feb 20, 2016 | Blog, Family History
Untangling fact from fiction in the case of Ernest Loop Genealogy would be a very dull hobby without people like my second great-grandfather, Ernest Loop… and possibly a much simpler one. He’s easily one of the most colorful characters in my family tree, along with...
