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Tag: Baby Boomers
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Newspaper Carrier Day: Finding the Child Workers Hiding in Your Family’s Census Records
Newspaper Carrier Day is September 4. Learn how to find child workers in your family’s 1900 and 1910 census records, hiding in the occupation column.
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Woodstock Music Festival: Interviewing Boomer Relatives: Questions That Actually Work
Woodstock Music Festival: Interviewing Boomer Relatives: Questions That Actually Work I grew up in Liberty, New York, about ten miles from Bethel. In August 1969, I was six years old. Somewhere out there, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, half a million people were listening to Jimi Hendrix and sleeping in the mud, and I was…
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One Small Step, One Giant Family History Conversation
One Small Step: Turn July 20, 1969 into a genealogy goldmine. Learn how to capture Apollo 11 memories through oral history interviews before they’re gone.
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National Ice Cream Day: Family History and Food Memories
National Ice Cream Day 2026 falls on July 19. Learn how dairy farm censuses, soda fountains, and old family recipes can crack open your genealogy research.
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Disneyland Opens in 1955: Family Vacation Photos and Genealogy
Disneyland turns 71 in 2026. Here’s how to treat vacation photos, ticket stubs, and Route 66 postcards as real genealogy sources.
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Dark Shadows Family Secrets: Tracing Dark New England Genealogy Like the Collins Family
Dark Shadows Family Secrets: Inspired by Dark Shadows? Explore real colonial New England genealogy — church registers, probate wills, and cemetery records in Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut.
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National Hispanic Heritage Month Begins: Parish Registers That Reach Back Before Civil Registration
National Hispanic Heritage Month starts September 15. Catholic parish registers often carry a family line centuries before Latin American civil registration began.
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The Muppet Show at 50: Which Ancestor Was Your Miss Piggy?
The Muppet Show at 50: The Muppet Show meets genealogy. Find the Miss Piggy, Beaker, and Sam the Eagle in your family tree and start writing ancestor sketches.
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Grandparents Day: Use Social Security Applications to Rebuild a Grandparent’s Early Life
Grandparents Day: A single 1930s government form can reveal your grandparent’s birthplace, birth date, and parents’ names. Here’s why the SS-5 is genealogy’s best-kept secret.