My Trails into the Past

It is not often you learn about someone’s occupation from the person themselves. This happened to me this week in researching newspapers for articles about Ludwig Wilhelm (Louis W.) Wollenweber. I located an ad he put into a Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper weekly for nearly a year about his business. I learned quite a bit about his occupation and what his business did from the ad. [1] “Wollenweber’s New Bakery and Confectionery,”  Cleveland Daily Express , 5 Jul 1854, p. 4, col. 1. There are lots of clues in this ad. I have the name of the establishment: Wollenweber’s New Bakery and Confectionary. Its location is on Pearl Street in Cleveland, opposite H. Stone’s residence. I checked out Pearl Street on a map, and it is a long street, so that wasn’t helpful. In 1850, he was enumerated in the third ward, which if his establishment was close to his residence, that might help. [2] Unfortunately, the census does not provide addresses. The 1850 census did not have any candidates for H. Stone...

Outside activities included a trip to Sacramento, phenology, John Muir Earth Day Birthday, and a concert.   Genealogy Genealogy Volunteer/Work: I drove up to Sacramento to present "How to Leave Your Genealogy" to the Sacramento Association of Genealogy. They were very receptive to the talk, asked lots of questions, and share additional suggestions. Then I drove to the Oakland FamilySearch Center and gave the presentation "Probate Records: More Than Wills." I worked on accessions at the History Center, entering them into PastPerfect. I got the new login and password for the Online Archive of California and will work on updating collections next. On Thursday, I took minutes of the board meeting. I turned in my press release committee report for the upcoming BCG board meeting.    I also attended the Sonoma County Genealogical Society’s board meeting and took minutes. Yeah, we have a member who will take over the secretary position in July. I’m retiring from...

The first half of this month’s study is on the Wollenweber family, German ancestors of my husband’s paternal line. After creating a timeline for Ludwig Wilhelm (Louis W.) Wollenweber, it is time to utilize full-text search at FamilySearch . I have found multiple spellings of his surname, so I will be methodological in searching using the different spelling variations. Full-text search is very specific and does not usually find variations. I will search by location, starting with Kentucky, since he was in Louisville the longest. The names searched on were Wollenweber, Wallenweber, Woolenweber, Wollenwebber, and W*weber in Jefferson County, Kentucky Newspapers Several articles from Louisville newspapers were returned. I had no idea FamilySearch had digital newspapers, so this was a pleasant surprise. Following the FamilySearch searching, I will also search in newspapers. Although I found them randomly by date, these are now listed in chronological order. 21 Oct 1859. An untitled a...

Muriel Martha Gilbert, the only daughter of Mary Martha Gleeson and Warren Edmond Gilbert, was born on 19 October 1895 in San Francisco, California. [1] She died 11 May 1956 in Los Angeles, and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles. [2] She lived with her parents her whole life and never married. I have a photo of her, her parents, my grandmother, my aunt, Lorene, and my grandmother's father, taken in 1923/24. My grandmother and Muriel were first cousins.  Warren, Mary Martha, Anna Hork, Lorene Hork, Muriel, John H. Sullivan In 1915, the family moved to Elsinore Valley, where her father was involved in real estate. She offered herself as a teacher of the piano by placing an ad in the paper. [3] She taught beginners as well as more advanced students, using Mrs. Crosby Adams method. [4] Juliette Graves Adams and her husband Crosby Adams established the Crosby Adams School in Chicago which included teacher-training in public school music, and also offered programs in instr...