Heritage Genealogy Corner

09/28/2025

Clan map

09/28/2025

A pig ran through grandmas wedding photo - 1927. More iconic photos in comments below 👇

09/28/2025

09/28/2025

6 year old paperboy, 1910. 💬👇

09/26/2025

Well that's quite the story to retell over and over.

Not your typical obituary: “Aged Woman Dies 101 Years After She Was Put in Coffin.”

According to a more detailed obituary published in the Springfield Evening Union, "Mrs. Bucklin delighted to tell about having been considered dead three days after she was born."

That same obituary wrote, "Long a colorful figure of this community, she led an independent life until after passing the century mark, doing her own housework and maintaining a large garden, which she planted, tended and harvested herself."

See this 1935 clipping in the Standard-Star on our site: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-star-aged-woman-dies-101-y/123052379/

Or read her Springfield Evening Union obituary: https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-evening-union-maria-f-buck/180925686/

09/24/2025

Another example of why I say Spanish Mexican records are some of the best out there. Here is information on Ysidro Lopes from a 1724 Nueva Vizcaya (Sonora) list of soldiers. Ysidro is the son of Ensign Gaspar Lopez de Lara and Juana Borsillo. For anyone researching in the early 1700s this is a goldmine of information.

09/24/2025

A mother and daughter hamming it up for the camera, ca 1900. 💬👇

09/24/2025

So. Many. Cousins! 😁

09/24/2025

Drat! I love a challenge ☺️

09/24/2025

Colorado, ca. 1890...

Summary
Interior view of a Salida drugstore, Chaffee County, Colorado, shows men in suits, ties, fedora hats, and gold chains, soda fountain with marble counter, syrup containers, metal serving mugs, Rose's Lime Juice, and apothecary shelves filled with bottles and topped with potted palms. Labels read: "Malt," "Ginger," and "Sulphur."...

Source
Denver Public Library