Month: December 2022

Out of the Attic: The Hogarth Letter

Recently the DGS newsletter committee was honored to receive a transcription of Hogarth family papers.

Gazetteer acts as road map to ancestors

Following one’s ancestors across the country or around the globe often causes a genealogist to seek out maps and gazetteers.

FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries in Texas

FamilySearch began digitizing the collections held at the Family History Library in 1998.

Using the Texas Historical Commission Atlas of Cemeteries

The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has a list of cemeteries, courthouses, national register properties, state antiquities landmarks, historical markers, and museums on its Texas Historical Sites Atlas.

Augustus Hartman, Electorate of Hesse to Syracuse, New York, 1829-1909

Augustus Hartman landed in the Port of Baltimore in 1846, giving Hesse‑Kassel as his place of origin.