Today I watched The Blue Eyed Six documentary on DVD. The Blue Eyed Six were a group of six men, all of them coincidentally blue-eyed, who were arrested and indicted on first degree murder charges in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in 1879. The motive for the murder was an insurance scheme which relied on life insurance […]
While researching my father’s native American ancestry, I had been contacted by a researcher in Minnesota, who had information about my great-grandfather’s first wife. In her correspondence, she referenced a tribal census. I asked her where she got that information, and she told me about how she and her husband had taken a week’s […]
Early on in my genealogy research, I had found a set of our great-great-grandparents, John E. Mark and Dolly Snoke. The burials at Steelstown showed that John had been married previously to a woman named Mary, who died in 1865. When I researched the 1860 census, I discovered that John and Mary had a […]
My initial research into my mother’s ancestry ended with our great-great-grandfather, Phillip Shaffner, who died in 1920. His burial, as well as that of his wife, Maria Alleman, was listed on the Steelstown EC Church cemetery survey, which I found posted online by Marian Snyder. I visited the cemetery […]