Sassy Jane Genealogy https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/ U.S. and European Genealogy Research Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:02:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SJLogoFavicon.png?fit=16%2C16&ssl=1 Sassy Jane Genealogy https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/ 32 32 52777968 40 Years of Christmas Eves https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/40-years-of-christmas-eves/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/40-years-of-christmas-eves/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:05:24 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=5720 40 Years of Christmas Eves From 1900 to 1942, Anna and Richard Wagner had a photograph taken of themselves in their front room every Christmas Eve, and they sent the picture as a Christmas Card to their friends. Today, they inadvertently offer the modern viewer a fascinating perspective on the passage of time. There [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/40-years-of-christmas-eves/feed/ 0 5720 Finding Family Photo Clues https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/finding-family-photo-clues/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/finding-family-photo-clues/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:00:14 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=22614 Finding family photo clues is an important skill for any genealogist. Clues usually lie inside family photos every genealogist possesses. Learn about resources for family photo clues using the main image (above). Hann family on the porch of 324 Marshfield Avenue, Chicago, about 1911. Clue 1: Recognizable People I found my grandmother [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/finding-family-photo-clues/feed/ 2 22614 Choosing Image Management Software https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/choosing-image-management-software/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/choosing-image-management-software/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:56:28 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=8207 Choosing image management software is a key step to getting family photos organized. This post helps you use the right tools to add names, dates, and places to photographs or records. Choosing the best image management software for your collections helps you organize your photos AND make them searchable. This is an essential step, [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/choosing-image-management-software/feed/ 18 8207 Caring for Family Textiles https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/caring-for-family-textiles/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/caring-for-family-textiles/#respond Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:00:22 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=3415 Family Textiles Are Records Too Are you caring for family textiles? Perhaps you are fortunate enough to have inherited a wedding dress or sampler or quilt. Genealogists are family archivists and sometimes they're museum curators too. Here are six tips and some other ideas for caring for your family textiles. 1. Place Items in [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/caring-for-family-textiles/feed/ 0 5305 Is There an Elmer Ellsworth in Your Family Tree? https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/elmer-ellsworth/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/elmer-ellsworth/#comments Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:40:39 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=12929 Then your ancestor was named for Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War. At the age of 24, Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth died in battle, the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. Ellsworth was murdered by a civilian Confederate innkeeper in Alexandria, Virginia. He died on May 24, 1861, [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/elmer-ellsworth/feed/ 26 12929 Ethnic Heritage Resources https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/ethnic-heritage-resources/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/ethnic-heritage-resources/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:00:28 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=28199 These Ethnic Heritage Resources, compiled by the National Archives, list published titles by ethnicity available for genealogy research. Ethnic Immigration Research The Ethnic Heritage Bibliography link in this sentence was compiled at the Archives Library Information Center (ALIC). If you find a useful title, use Worldcat to find the nearest location of titles. These [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/ethnic-heritage-resources/feed/ 0 28199 Creating a Prussian Genealogy Cheat Sheet https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/creating-a-prussian-genealogy-cheat-sheet/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/creating-a-prussian-genealogy-cheat-sheet/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:29:41 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=28078 Irecommend creating a Prussian genealogy cheat sheet when searching for ancestors from Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, and West Prussia. Creating a Prussian Genealogy Cheat Sheet When creating your Prussian genealogy cheat sheet, add columns first by German names for Prussian provinces. Then add a column for Polish place names. Add a third [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/creating-a-prussian-genealogy-cheat-sheet/feed/ 0 28078 Poznan Marriage Project Database https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/poznan-marriage-project-database/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/poznan-marriage-project-database/#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:00:00 +0000 http://donotter.com/nancy/follow-friday-the-poznan-marriage-project/ The Poznan Marriage Project database is indispensable for Posen genealogy research. Do you have Prussian ancestors in this province? Read on! Posen Marriage Research in Prussia The Poznan Marriage Project database contains extracted information on nearly two million nineteenth-century marriage records performed in Posen, Prussia. After 1945, this location became Poznań, Poland. Headed by [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/poznan-marriage-project-database/feed/ 2 651 Finding Prussian Ancestors in Online Archives Webinar https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/finding-prussian-ancestors-in-online-archives-webinar/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/finding-prussian-ancestors-in-online-archives-webinar/#respond Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:32:29 +0000 https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/?p=27867 Coming soon – Finding Prussian Ancestors in Online Archives webinar at Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Click here for free registration for the premiere on August 9, 2023. Register Here For This Free Webinar Legacy Family Tree Webinar Discover online records for German-speaking ancestors from Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, and West Prussia. [...]

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]]> https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/finding-prussian-ancestors-in-online-archives-webinar/feed/ 0 27867 Use Multiple Sources for Census Searches https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/use-multiple-sources-for-census-searches/ https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/use-multiple-sources-for-census-searches/#comments Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:30:00 +0000 http://donotter.com/nancy/tuesdays-tip-use-more-than-one-source-to-search-the-u-s-census/ Do you use multiple sources for census searches? If you're having trouble locating an ancestor in US or UK censuses, try searching at different genealogy websites. Why Search Multiple Sites? Now that census images for the US and UK are available online from multiple providers, it's always a good idea to search each of [...]

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