Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 4 This is the fourth in a a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. Using some techniques for evaluating indirect and negative evidence, I was finally able to break through a 20+ year old brick wall in … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 3 This is the third in a a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. Using some techniques for evaluating indirect and negative evidence, I was finally able to break through a 20+ year old brick wall in … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 2 This is the second in a a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. Using some techniques for evaluating indirect and negative evidence, I was finally able to break through a 20+ year old brick wall in … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 1 This is a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. After 20 years of searching for this family (and many years by others before me), I ran across a podcast on Ancestral Findings discussing the use of … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
Mary Ann Clegg Byrne Sometimes you run across a portrait that is so beautiful it makes you really stop and stare. That is how I felt when I saw this portrait of Mary Byrne. She is not directly related to myself or my husband; she was a great aunt of my husband's aunt, Sara Elliott … Continue reading Portraits
Golden Wedding Anniversary 1938 Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Witzel, 3033 N. 12th st, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary recently. They were married in Milwaukee. They have two children and two grandchildren. Source unknown - presumably Milwaukee Journal
Gladys Jentz Gladys Mary Jentz was the seventh of ten children of John Jentz and Caroline Reisig. Gladys was born in Fennimore, Grant County, Wisconsin, on 21 January 1904. Her baptism and birth are recorded at St. Peter's Church. Gladys was the younger sister of Anna K. Jentz (known as Lula) who was the mother … Continue reading Saturday Mourning
William Johann Carl Hell Every family has stories passed down from generation to generation. Over time the details can become fuzzy, and factual information gets replaced with fiction. The story is not necessarily altered on purpose. Like the game of Telephone, when messages get passed through multiple tellings, things get left out and added due … Continue reading Family Lore: Fact vs Fiction
WitzEnd Family History 