Wordless Wednesday: Unidentified Baby
The next installment in the Unidentified Pennsylvanians series features an unidentified baby most likely from the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania area, taken in the early 20th century. For more photos visit the Unidentified People photo gallery.
Wordless Wednesday: Unidentified Man and Child
The next installment in the Unidentified Pennsylvanians series. This photo features and unidentified man, quite likely the father, and child most likely from the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania area in the early 20th century. For more photos visit the Unidentified People photo gallery.
Friday Finds: Online Census Images
The United States Federal Census is one of the most widely used resources for genealogists. But did you know that the census microfilm images are also available online for free through the Internet Archive?
Wordless Wednesday: Unidentified Children
Here’s the second installment in my Unidentified Pennsylvanians series. This photo features three children most likely from the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania area in the early 20th century. More unidentified photos can be found in my Unidentified People gallery.
Friday Finds: Trinity Lutheran Birth and Baptismal Records Online
I’ve been trying to get the Trinity Lutheran Church Records, volumes 1-4, through ILL for some time now with mixed results. So, imagine how pleased I was to find some of the records online in the Internet Archive. The Pennsylvania-German Society published their Proceedings and Addresses in the 1890s. Several volumes included records from Trinity… read more
Wordless Wednesday: Unknown Pennsylvanians
Starting this week I’m starting a new photo series—Unknown Pennsylvanians. Amongst the photos I inherited from my maternal grandparents were a whole slew of photos of people that no one in the family can identify. Since none of them are labeled with names, I’m going to post them in a gallery here on my website… read more
Tombstone Tuesday: Horace & Mary (Breish) Witmer
Horace Witmer, son of Edward J. and Lydia (Kline) Witmer, was born 21 Dec 1864 and died 5 Dec 1926. His wife, Mary A. C. (Breish) Witmer, was born 8 Jan 1870 and died 31 Mar 1944. They are buried in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Red Hill, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Wordless Wednesday: At Home in Edinburgh, ca 1914
The back says: “Taken a week past Sunday when up. That is Roy [Rog] next door sitting on Crissie’s knee” and also “Peter Chrissie May Jessie & a little boy that always with May.”
Tombstone Tuesday: Edward & Lydia (Kline) Witmer
Edward J. Witmer, son of John and Rachel (Jones?) Witmer, was born in Quakertown 13 Oct 1833 and died near Finland 24 Jan 1912. His wife, Lydia Amanda (Kline) Witmer, daughter of Philip and Lydia (Markly) Kline, was born 26 Mar 1836 near Pennsburg and died 30 Mar 1926 in Red Hill.
How VueScan Saved My Scanner
Years (and years and years) ago, I upgraded computers. In the transition, I changed the operating system I was using. After upgrading, I discovered that my scanner would no longer work. Canon, it’s maker, was no longer supporting it with drivers that would work on my new OS. Bummer. We purchased an all-in-one printer-fax-copier-scanner that… read more
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