- February, 2000
- March, 2000
- April, 2000
- May, 2000
- June, 2000
- July, 2000
- August, 2000
- October, 2000
- January, 2001
- February, 2001
- March, 2001
- April, 2001
- May, 2001
- August, 2001
- October, 2001
- November, 2001
- December, 2001
- January, 2002
- February, 2002
- March, 2002
- April, 2002
- May, 2002
- June, 2002
- August, 2002
- September, 2002
- October, 2002
- November, 2002
- January, 2003
- April, 2003
- May, 2003
- June, 2003
- September, 2003
- May, 2004
- June, 2004
- January, 2006
- September, 2007
- September, 2011
- December, 2011
- June, 2016
- December, 2017
- December, 2018
- April, 2019
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
I’m digging through my files now, figuring out what has come in in the past year or so since I last posted anything substantive here. One small thing I got was a copy of the Social Security application (SS-5) of my great-great grandmother Daley (Hertel) Schmitt.
I had gotten her death record a while back. She died in 1955, before the death records for Social Security were computerized, so she didn’t show up in the Social Security Death Index, the easy way to get a copy of an SS-5. So I hadn’t before. But the death certificate had her Social Security Number on it. That made it possible to send away for the SS-5 form.
There’s not a lot of new information there. I already knew that her birthday was June 16, 1884, from her death record. I knew the parents’ names, although it’s interesting to see her list her mother Wilhelmina’s first name as Minnie; now I know what my 3G grandmother went by in her daily life. And the SS-5 contains the best rendering of Daley’s given name yet: Thecla Anna Hertel. So it was useful for that. Also, it’s got her signature, which I didn’t have before.
Social Security Application (SS-5)
Posted at 10:17:39 AM Link to this entry
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Welcome to anyone visiting this site after hearing about it on The Genealogy Guys Podcast. I was doing some ego surfing earlier tonight when I came across their podcast that mentions this blog (largely dormant since we bought the house). One of the podcast’s hosts, Drew Smith, wrote a nice column about this blog (and how to start your own) for Genealogical Computing magazine a few years ago. He says some very nice things about me and this site in the podcast. The rest of the podcast (the parts that aren’t about me) is pretty interesting, too. :-) The stuff about me me me begins about 13:30 into the show.
I haven’t been completely inactive with my genealogy in the past couple of years, but most of my genealogy files are still in boxes, and the few things that aren’t in boxes are not as organized as they should be. But I’ve got a couple of interesting stories I haven’t told on the site yet, so I should be able to add them, hopefully in the next couple of weeks. And the house is really starting to come together lately, so I’m hopeful that I’ll be getting the genealogy files in shape in the coming weeks and can restart my research.
In the meantime, I’ve added The Genealogy Guys Podcast to my subscription list in iTunes.
Posted at 1:31:56 AM Link to this entry