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Follow Friday (or Frustration Friday) – Finding Immigrants
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Continue reading →: Follow Friday (or Frustration Friday) – Finding ImmigrantsLooking for immigrant records can be monumentally frustrating, but it can also lead to amazing finds. I’ve had both in the past couple of weeks.
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Continue reading →: Black Sheep Sunday – Grandpa Runs Away from Home
Well, he wasn’t grandpa at the time, but it was fun discovering and sharing this particular story from grandpa’s past, about which none of his kids apparently knew. Dominic always was a bit of a firecracker, and well, I guess he started young. From the Aug. 11, 1913 Philadelphia Inquirer:…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday’s Child: Salvatore and Domenic Jr.
This is the grave of my great-grandfather and 2nd great grandfather. But it’s also the grave of two children.
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Shopping Saturday – Rose Inke’s Latvian Women’s Hat Shop
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Continue reading →: Shopping Saturday – Rose Inke’s Latvian Women’s Hat ShopGenealogists rely on the kindness and hard work of strangers. So much of what we learn frequently comes from those incredible acts of kindness we experience as anonymous transcriptions or responses to [e]mailed and phone requests for records, details, *anything* that will provide clues as we follow the trail of…
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Continue reading →: Follow Friday: This week’s favorites
This is my first “this week’s favorites”. These are resources I’ve found interesting and/or useful. I hope you do too. Chicago History Resource: Chicago Public Library’s Digital Collections. Search the 1908-1918 Chicago Examiner and a number of other great online archives free. I’ve found some great stories about the Boenings…
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Continue reading →: Those Places Thursday: L’Emmanuello Italian Episcopal Mission Church in Philadelphia
In the late 19th century, countless home missions and missionary societies sprung up in the US in response to the incoming waves of immigrants. Their purposes included education, orientation, and “transform[ing] the raw immigrant into a white-souled citizen,” as the 1902 Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of the Methodist…
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Continue reading →: Funeral Card Friday: Dominic Michael Oliva
In loving memory of Dominic M. Oliva Born November 1, 1902 Passed Away Thurs. Jan 22nd, 1998 Services Held at Jefferson Park Lutheran Church 5009 N. Northwest Hwy Mon. Jan 26th, 1998 11AM Officiating Reverend Charles R. Aufdenkampe Interment Memory Gardens Cemetery Dominic was my grandfather. He was quite the…
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Continue reading →: Giovanni Oliva and the Order Sons of Italy
The Order of Sons of Italy in America was founded in 1905 as a mutual aid society to assist the influx of Italian immigrants to the US. One of things the OSIA did was to provide its members with a burial benefit for members’ families. Ancestry.com has some records of…
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Continue reading →: Julius Purweet’s Patent
On October 12, 1935, Julius Edward Purweet applied for a Patent for a spring assembly he had devised. At the time, he was living in Maspeth, a neighborhood in Queens, New York.
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Continue reading →: Philip J Boening’s Meritorious Conduct Award
An interesting piece from a Google Books search, about the 131st US Infantry (First Infantry IL National Guard) during WWI:
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