Family Archaeologist
“Family Archaeologist” explores a century of family letters, diaries, and artifacts, and how they illuminate history and our shared humanity. To get an overview of the blog, click “Welcome to Family Archaeologist.”
“Family Archaeologist” explores a century of family letters, diaries, and artifacts, and how they illuminate history and our shared humanity. To get an overview of the blog, click “Welcome to Family Archaeologist.”
It reads “Heartfelt Good Wishes for your Name DayDated November 18, 1910, Josef Gärtz sent this postcard to his sweetheart, Lisi Ebner to arrive on her Names Day, Nov. 19th, 1910 One year ago today I posted the [...]
Lillian Koroschetz, 1937, age 20, about 3 years before meeting Fred We’ve been following along with Lillian Koroschetz, my mom, as she writes about the joy of falling in love with my dad seventy years ago, in 1941. To [...]
Fred and Lillian Gartz, Nov. 8, 1942, outside church I’m getting a little ahead of myself here, but this post isn’t really a spoiler. After all, you did know my parents would be getting married—right? So even though [...]
Lil and Fred, 8/27/1941—This is the first photo of the two of them together, and this diary entry confirms the date. North Ave. Beach, Chicago Charles Schultz wrote two memorable square-shaped little “Peanuts” books in which each page [...]
Friday, August 22, 1941 Well, my Friedrich phoned me again on Tuesday, and wanted to go swimming with me Wed. But I couldn’t make it till Friday so we made our date for tonite. I picked him up at his [...]