Showing posts with label goldenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goldenstein. Show all posts
04 November 2014

8776 from 1912 to 1956

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License plate of J. L. Goldenstein, made from an image posted on  Ebay  of a United Press 1956 photograph A few days ago I wrote about a...
28 October 2014

Non-Famous People in the Newspaper-Your Genealogy Plate May Be Full

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It's not just the rich and famous who appear in newspapers across the country. This 1956 item captures the license plate display of J....
04 August 2013

Exhausting Those Homesteaders Who Regularly Attend Church in Nebraska

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Genealogists talk about "exhaustive search" and what it entails. Generally speaking, it means look at all material that could rea...
25 June 2013

Newspapers Do Not Always Get it Right--But They Do Get It

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This reference to a 1914 partition suit reminds us that newspapers may supplement what is in court records and may be all that exists if re...
26 April 2013

Was He Focke or Fokke?

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What name to "use" for an immigrant ancestor is often a dilemma for the genealogist. It can be made worse when the ancestor is a ...
21 April 2013

The Goldenstein Trunk

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I've written about this trunk before and have actually had it for over ten years. It's not a new acquisition, but I decided to r...
16 February 2013

Buying A Rice Farm in 1905?

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It always boils down to context in one way or another.  Newspapers can provide details one would not expect about your ancestor's l...
07 February 2013

What Does It Mean That He Voted?

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In July of 1888, Focke Goldenstein made his final affidavit in order to complete his homestead claim in Dawson County, Nebraska. One of th...
28 January 2013

The Neighbor's Incomplete Claim

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I've been using the Bureau of Land Management Tract Books that have recently been made available in digital form on the FamilySearch ...
25 November 2008

Another Clipping--this one with a date

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This obituary was split over different parts of the newspaper as well. Fortunately this time the item of interest was located near the date ...
10 November 2008

United States Marine Corps Muster Rolls 1798-1940

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Ancestry.com has added U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1940 to their list of searchable databases. I actually think they have updated ...
06 November 2007

1870 era immigrant trunk

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I've had this trunk for a while and am still trying to locate Altje on the passenger manifest when she immigrated. Altje was born in 18...
18 September 2007

1885 Colorado Census

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I've found my 3rd great-grandfather's sister living with her son and his family in Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado, in the 1880 ce...
23 February 2007

1921 Murder or Suicide in Kansas City?

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My great-uncle, Henry Goldenstein, died on 7 July 1921 in Kansas City, Missouri. I had never bothered to get a copy of his death certificate...