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.”

He really loves me!

Just one week after Fred’s May 10, 1942, letter to his mother, detailing the trauma of his dismissal from the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant in La Porte, Indiana,(see War & Bigotry & following three posts) he was back in Chicago. Perhaps his raw [...]

Linda Admin2012-02-07T02:30:00-06:00February 7th, 2012|Chicago: A View Over Time, Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, love, romance|

I-Gene Awards 2012-And the winners are…

Thanks to Jasia, at Creative Gene for once again hosting the annual I-Gene awards, an opportunity for the genealogy blogging community to look back over the past year and salute each other’s best posts in five categories. Here are my [...]

Linda Admin2012-02-01T06:00:00-06:00February 1st, 2012|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, immigration, Transylvania|

When love and science collide

North Ave. Beach 8/27/1941 Fred (my dad) sent this amusing “scientific analysis” of two “aquatic species,” probably based on a photo (he says “illustration” but I think that’s part of the joke) that was enclosed with the letter. [...]

Linda Admin2012-01-31T02:30:00-06:00January 31st, 2012|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, love, memoir, romance, World War II, WWII|

Anti-American hobbies

Der Prozess, The Trial by Franz Kafka The last two posts have detailed the anti-German bigotry my father faced in his work at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant in La Porte, Indiana, where he had begun work on March [...]

Linda Admin2012-01-24T02:30:00-06:00January 24th, 2012|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, love, romance, World War II, WWII|

An FBI Investigation???

Munitions are processed at Kingsbury Ordnance Plant during World War II. Photocourtesy of LaPorte County Historical Society Museum In last week’s post, “War and Bigotry” I shared a letter from Fred Gartz (my dad) to his mother detailing [...]

Linda Admin2012-01-17T02:30:00-06:00January 17th, 2012|Family Archaeologist, family history, Genealogy, love, romance, World War II, WWII|

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