Cemetery cannot be destroyed for O’Hare International Airport.
For some time now, I have been reading about Chicago’s plans to add a runway to O’Hare International Airport. Sadly, this necessitated the moving of many bodies buried in St. Johannes’ Cemetery on the...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar: Christmas Tree Memories
My plan for this December is to be a better participant in the Geneabloggers Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories. This will be a way for me to tell my children and grandchildren about Christmas in my...
View Article140th Anniversary of the 1871 Chicago Fire
“Today and tomorrow, Oct. 8 and 9, mark the 140th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.” Click here to read the full post on the Newberry Library’s Genealogy News. Click here to read about the...
View ArticleA family genealogical connection to Chicago’s Soldier Field
One of my favorite lectures to present during seminars is “Your Anytime Library: Success in the Virtual Stacks.” It’s about finding digitized records, books, pamphlets, and periodicals while lounging...
View ArticleChicagoAncestors.org gone for a while
From the Genealogy Blog of the Newberry Library, the outdated code for the ChicagoAncestors.org website is the issue that has resulted in the suspension of the website. Ouch. I guess I will put off...
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