Age: By the Numbers

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” ~ Mark Twain The 52nd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy focuses on the topic of “age”: Take some time to look over the data that you have collected on members of your family tree, [...]

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Death Record of Jacob Zinsmeister, 1796

This is a rather unusual death record from my genealogical “collection” with an odd reason for the death. I wish they had newspapers back then – this would have made a rather interesting obituary! The record source is the Kirchenbuch records from the Catholic church in Puch, Bavaria, Germany and details the death of Jacob [...]

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