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Sleuthing sisters sifting through history. The memory of the dead is in the hands of the living.
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Another Civil War ancestor (opens the original)
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How many graves of your great-great-great grandparents have you visited? For most of my life, my answer was zero, and I didn’t think it would even be possible to do so without traveling to Europe. Even having done the obligatory family tree project sometime in grade school, for most of my life, I was under the impression that all my German, Irish, and Swiss ancestors had immigrated to America at the end of the 19th century. Little did I know, as I was sitting in my fifth grade classroom studying
Oktoberfest: A Cemetery Series (opens the original)
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In September in Cincinnati each year we celebrate what we call “Oktoberfest,” which is essentially a large festival where Cincinnatians drink beer and eat German food downtown. This event inspired me to do a series focusing on Cincinnati’s German culture but in a way that aligns with what we do here at The Silent Sod. I am visiting German cemeteries in Cincinnati and sharing the highlights with you! The first cemetery is St. John Cemetery in St. Bernard, Ohio. It is a small German Catholic cemet
A drifting ocean liner (opens the original)
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Sarah expressed interest in another story that I found for August regarding ocean liners, so I decided to do a bonus post this month to explore the one she was curious about. The article was from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat dated August 31, 1904. “Sees Big Ocean Liner Apparently Drifting”—Bremen, August 30.—The North German Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm, which arrived here to-day, reports having sighted, August 27, the Hamburg-American line steamer Phoenicia, which left New York, August 20,
Upcoming cemetery tours in Amherst & Atlanta (opens the original)
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Today is officially the first day of fall! Since this is arguably the best season for visiting cemeteries, I’m excited to have two tours on the docket for October.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="550.5721153846154" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/
Bleeding Kansas and a pension record (opens the original)
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I’ve long been fascinated by Civil War history, but it’s only been in the last couple years through my research on Ancestry that I’ve realized my ancestors’ served during the war. Today, I want to look at the service record of Thomas Higgins Sr., my great-great-great-grandfather who was born in Pennsylvania but spent most of his life in Maysville, Kentucky. It was there in 1855 that he married my great-great-great grandmother, Margaret Clooney, who was originally from Ireland. <a class="image-li
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