NARA's Seventh Annual Genealogy Fair

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Seventh Annual Genealogy Fair

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This Day in History: The Civil War Begins

Apr 12, 1861:

The Civil War begins

when Confederate shore batteries open fire on Union-held Fort Sumpter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.

The Bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12-13, 1861

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Rosa (Maurer) Kolbush (1900-1996)

  

(click image to enlarge)

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Wordless Wednesday: Grandmother's Membership Card

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1948 Wedding Photo of Catherine Errickson of NJ

     

Sports Saturday: Play Ball!

     

Ralph Kolbush

Jamesburg, N.J.

17 May 1948 

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Towns of our Ancestors - Doeden of Appingedam, Netherlands

Appingedam, a trading seaport located in northeastern Netherlands, came into existence around 1200. This was the hometown of Jan Doeden, a cooper, who arrived in Philadelphia and settled in  Germantown during the time of William Penn.  In the earliest years of the Germantown settlement, Jan Doeden farmed and grew apples and pears on the lot just north of the Pastorius tract.

Many original medieval premises can still be found in the center of Appingedam. The most famous sight is the hanging kitchens above the Damsterdiep channel.

Hanging kitchens in Appingedam

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Capt. Edmund Du Casteel at Sea in 1702

From the letters of William Penn and James Logan, Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania, is a reference to our 7th Great-Grandfather, Edmund Du Casteel:
  

Source: Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan, secretary of the province of Pennsylvania, and others, 1700-1750: From the original letters in possession of the Logan family, Volume 9; p.132; William Penn, James Logan.

Published by The Historical society of Pennsylvania, 1870
(available on Google eBooks)

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Black Sheep Sunday: Darn that Prohibition Law!

                 

In 1922, our Great Grandfather, Ignatz Kollain, was ...ah....caught.

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Prohibition began on 17 January 1920, with the Eighteenth Amendment. A total of 1,520 Federal Prohibition agents were given the task of enforcing the law.  The Amendment was repealed in 1933.

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So. California's Japanese Deer Park (1967-1975)

   

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Wordless Wednesday - Elizabeth Taylor

           

Elizabeth Taylor

 02/27/1932  -  03/23/2011

Click image to enlarge.

 (Source: genealogy.com)

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Tech Tuesday: Genealogy App for Google Android

Family Bee – Genealogy Software for Google Android
   

Family Bee is a full-featured, robust family tree browser. It allows you to view information about families and individuals stored in GEDCOM genealogy files.  

At a cost of  $10 this program lets you:

                     

• store an unlimited number of trees
• supports fast searches over the individuals in the trees
• provides specialized views of families, individuals, "pedigree" trees, and descendents
• includes facts, events, notes, and sources

For more information see:  Beekeeper Labs  

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