This week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge was to make a trading card of yourself. Randy Seaver (Genea-Musings) was inspired to suggest this challenge by Sheri Fenley’s (The Educated Genealogist) blog post showing her trading card. If you want to make a card for yourself, go to the Big Huge Labs website. Here is the card I created:
September 10th, 2009
Smile for the Camera, 17th Edition – School Days
The prompt for this edition of Smile for the Camera is “School Days.” Below are photos of Alliance High School, located in Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. The building was built in 1868 as Alliance College, and was purchased in 1887 to be used as the high school. It was located at the corner of Broadway Street and Linden Avenue. Sadly, the building was demolished in 1910. A second high school
September 10th, 2009
Wordless Wednesday – 9 September 2009
Wabash Avenue, looking east from Sixth Street. Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.
September 9th, 2009
Tombstone Tuesday – Rudisel, James & William
This tombstone is located in Brown Cemetery, Blackhawk, Vigo County, Indiana. The right pillar is for James Rudisel, born Jan 10, 1844 and died Aug 29, 1881. The left pillar is for William Rudisel, born March 2, 1824 and died on Dec 1, 1881, and father of James. William is the 3rd great gradfather of my husband. According to information given to us by a relative, William homesteaded a section
September 7th, 2009
Labor Day in the USA
Labor Day is a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the United States of America. Who founded Labor Day? Well, that fact is not quite certain, even after celebrating 126 Labor Day holidays. Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was the first