Honoring Our Veterans

 

 

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Register Now for Jamboree's Free Live-Streamed Sessions

45th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree

 is offering fourteen live-streamed sessions free of charge.

Click HERE for listing of sessions offered June 6 - June 8

Tombstone Tuesday: Steve & Theresa (Stosz) Hack

Whiting Memorial Park

Ocean County, New Jersey

('Thank you' to Rich, a find-a-grave volunteer, who photographed this marker for me.)

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Happy Mother's Day

 

 

Happy Mother's Day!

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Shopping Saturday: c.1923 Gift's for Mother's Day

 

 

Saturday, May 12, 1923

Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Follow Friday - NEHGS Blog: Vita Brevis

Vita Brevis provides blog posts by the New England Historic Genealogical Society Society’s expert staff on their own research, research methods on a variety of genealogical subjects, and posts regarding news from the genealogical community.

On Vita Brevis you can find excellent hints and tips to help you with your family research.

Free Family Charts & Research Templates

 AmericanAncestors.Org is providing research templates and family history charts for free to help you save time and organize your research.

At the NEHGS Online Learning Center you can download:
Five Generation Family Chart
Family Group Sheet
Research Log
and templates related to writing and publishing your family history.
Click here to check them out:  Templates

These are just a few of the many resources available to genealogists and family history researchers at the NEHGS website.

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Workday Wednesday: Apprentices Wanted

 

The Maryland Herald

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April 15th: Tax Day

Did you know:

The Revenue Act of 1862 was passed as an emergency and temporary war-time tax. It copied a relatively new British system of income taxation, instead of trade and property taxation.
The first income tax was passed in 1862:

• The initial rate was 3% on income over $800, which exempted most wage-earners.
• In 1862 the rate was 3% on income between $600 and $10,000, and 5% on income over $10,000.
• In 1864 the rate was 5% on income between $600 and $5,000; 7.5% on income $5,000–10,000; and 10% on income $10,000 and above.

Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.

Click Here to see the original 1913 IRS 1040.

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Take a voyage into the old Russian Empire—in full color photos

"Between 1909 and 1915, [photographer Sergei Mikhailovich] Prokudin-Gorskii crisscrossed the Russian Empire via train, taking photographs of 11 different regions."

Take a voyage into the old Russian Empire—in full color photos

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Gertrude May (Casteel) Imel of Macoupin Co IL

     

Gertrude May (Casteel) Imel

b.11 Dec 1879 

Daughter of James Polk & Arra A (Bacon) Casteel

Married Henry Adam Imel on 24 Mar 1900

d. 28 Feb 1909

March 1, 1909  

Daily Illinois State Journal 

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Tombstone Tuesday: Helen (Kolbush) Hausman

(photo: findagrave)

Helen (Kolbush) Hausman

b. 13 Apr 1921

daughter of Andrew & Rosa (Maurer) Kolbush

wife of Wilton Hausman

d. 4 Oct 1990

Buried: Old Tennent Churchyard

Monmouth, New Jersey

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