Family Stories and Photographs this holiday season

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Monday, November 29, 2021

by Debbie Rosenberg

The winter holiday season is a perfect time to find out more about your family history when you get together with loved ones around the table. Each relative will have different memories that will not only keep politics off the table, they can entertain the whole group! It's also a perfect time to pull out the family photo albums and try to identify those mystery people or places. We had a wonderful time recently going through old photos and if one couldn't identify someone, often another relative could. If you start thinking now about your ancestors, you'll probably come up with some questions to ask. For example, why can't I find my grandparents' marriage record in Milwaukee? They were both residents before and after the wedding so it should be there, right? Wrong. Grandma was a teacher, and it seems that she couldn't be married according to her contract. So off they went to Illinois to be married, back home to their parent's homes until the school year ended, and no announcement in the newspaper until summer. What will you find out?

The Fond du Lac Public Library has many resources both in print and online to help you.