Auntie Jen's Family Trees

09/28/2025

Happy birthday Jer! Hard to believe you are not in your teens anymore. You've grown into a man now. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of you. You will always be my nephew. Love you boog!

09/25/2025

Join us for our Local Author Showcase Vol. 2! It's a great way to meet some local authors and get some new books to read! See you there!

09/23/2025

🎃Rediscover Union's First Scare on the Square!!

We are bringing a scary movie, a haunted hayride, vendors, and more to downtown this October 25th! And we need sponsors to help make it happen!

Be a founding supporter of this brand new community tradition!!

Details in flyer-message us to get involved!👻

09/22/2025

Coming in October we will be collecting items for one week. See flyer for what items we are accepting. Items collected will go to Savers, an organization that helps non-profits and veterans. Would you like to help? Bring approved items to the Franklin County Historical Society Oct 5 - Oct 10 from 12pm to 4pm.
Address: 300 E Locust St, Union, MO. If you have questions, PM me.

09/20/2025

Sharing from Sue Randolph Neikirk from the Genealogy Addicts Anonymous group. This is a great reminder:

We all learned in school the different parts of a newspaper article but do you remember any of that information? Do you know how important it still is today for us genealogists?

Newspaper sites throw the article up for you to see and too often we don't truly look at all of it.

Do you see things like "cont. on page 4"? An article from California with an ancestor's name in it from New York? That is often a filler for the paper or an interesting crime. I worked on a crime in the 1890s and the story was all over the country.

I finally found the anatomy of a newspaper for you to take a look at.

09/19/2025

09/15/2025

Envelopes (if you have them) can contain clues---addresses and the like. I ended up with this lady's collection of family history materials, including letters relatives had written to her in the 1980s when she was trying to compile a list of her grandparents descendants.

In addition to the return address, this envelope had three phone numbers written on it--not the whole ten-digit number like today, but the last 5 digits. I actually went down the rabbit hole of locating the phone numbers. Of course I had to see who had the phone number 40 years ago and not today.

Clue, clue, every where a clue.

--Michael

09/15/2025

A historic monument in St. Louis’ Benton Park has been restored, several years after it was vandalized.

09/11/2025

Patriots Day – in remembrance of the Attack on America on September 11, 2001 - is observed each year in the United States on September 11th.

09/11/2025

Tonight will be the first Music on Main. I will be at the Franklin County Historical Society & Museum tonight as well. Come see us at 300 E Locust just down Oak from Hansen Park. Doors open at 5pm. Franklin County Historical Society

Hope to see you all there!