Susquehanna Trail Genealogy Club

07/20/2023

Due to covid and lack of member support to fill board positions, the executive board has elected to disband the club.
Per the bylaws, all club assets will be sold or donated and the proceeds placed into the treasury. All funds in the treasury will be dispersed equally among the current active membership.
The dispersment checks have been mailed. After all checks have cleared the bank, the club checking account will be closed.

09/12/2021

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What is a Family History Center? Any stake, ward, or branch can designate a room as a ‘family history room” but that does not make it a “Fam...

09/03/2021

Ancestry is free this labor day!

07/14/2021

Are you related to Loenardo Di Vinci?

An ongoing effort to trace the artist's male lineage may help researchers sequence his genome

12/11/2020

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Has your cemetery research reached a dead end? Our genealogy experts are here with answers!

12/11/2020

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Take your genealogy research into the field with these great cemetery apps. They include maps, gravesite location and more!

11/20/2020

WHAT WAS THANKSGIVING LIKE IN 1918?
In 1918, our ancestors dealt not only with a deadly pandemic, but also with the horrors of World War I.
As Thanksgiving Day approached, celebrations erupted when an armisce was signed on November 11,
1918, ending the fighing in Europe. There was great cause for giving thanks for the end of the war, but also great sadness at the loss of 4,734,991 US military casualies.

It was suggested that American families forego their usual turkey dinner so that the men still serving
overseas could have a traditional holiday meal. Substutes included chicken, steak, or duck. Apparently
those living in the Asheville, North Carolina, sought yet another alternative to turkey, according to The
Sunday Citizen*:
Another popular option…was opossum. “With other forms of meat so high [in cost], those inclined to be night prowlers have a doubly good excuse for engaging in their favorite sport,” The Sunday Citizen wrote. These hunters, the paper continued, “feel that they can mix sport with economy by following the trails of the hounds at night and fattening the opossums for Thanksgiving day spreads.”

With several hunting parties already formed, the paper wrote, “[o]wners of good hounds are finding themselves enjoying the height of popularity, friends warming up to them while requesting the use of their dogs.” Further, the paper noted, the activity was not exclusive to males. According to The Sunday Citizen, hunting opossum “has become a popular pastime among young people of both sexes[.]”

As we celebrate Thanksgiving 2020, with thoughts and prayers for those have suffered illness and loss in the current pandemic, we also remember our ancestors and the hardships they faced.

*As republished on November 22, 2018, in The Mountain Xpress at https://mountainx.com/news/
asheville-archives-patriotic-residents-forego-turkey-on-thanksgiving-1918/

Asheville and Western North Carolina news, investigative reporting, city and county government news.

11/03/2020

New records on Fold3 for german military killed between 1939 and 1948.

We’ve added a new collection of WWII records from Germany. The Germany, Military Killed in Action 1939-1948 collection contains index cards for about 2 million German soldiers killed during WWII. R…

10/28/2020

On this day in 1838, the governor of Missouri issued the "Extermination Order," which called for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be "exterminated or driven from the state." The order, and the larger 1838 Mormon War, sprung from heightened tensions between Joseph Smith's followers and non-Mormon Missourians that resulted in anti-LDS violence. Only in 1976, 138 years later, was the order officially rescinded.

Read about the "Utah War" and the early history of Latter-Day Saints in America.

10/28/2020

Some People Visit Cemeteries on Halloween. This Man Visits Them All Year to Honor the Dead He’s Never Met.
This Washington Post article profiles a FindAGrave contributor who has personally photographed and uploaded more than 90,000 photos of gravestones.

10/28/2020

1920 Census Raised Some Hackles
Tom Mooney, a columnist for the Times Leader in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, writes about the 1920 and the 2020 censuses.

10/28/2020

Fall Research "Stay-at-Home" Online Program


Learn about essential digital resources and research strategies, attend lectures given by our staff on popular genealogical topics, chat with our experts and other participants daily, and receive one-on-one consultation time focused on your research questions.

November 12-14, 2020.
Register by November 1!