Genealogy Disasters and Other Notable News
Barbara Jean MaySince GenDisasters no longer exists, I thought I would start re-creating something similar here on SubStack to benefit all of us. Please feel free to submit story suggestions. I will do my best to follow up and include them all!
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Lake Dunmore, 1905: The Drowning That Shaped Two Families
Genealogy is not just a trail of birth, marriage and death certificates. It is also made of moments that shook a family so deeply that later generations only whisper about them or forget them entirely. The 1905 reports of the drowning of El...
From Crime Blotter to Family History
Stanley Kotlark
Two gas stations, three terrified attendants, and one wild ride to the airport: it’s the kind of crime story that reads like a pulp novel, but for genealogists it’s also a rich, unexpected source of family history.
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Pennsylvania's Great Blizzard
AI Generated image of Philadelphia, PA in snow.
Pennsylvania woke up on February 13, 1899 to discover it was not just snowing, it was under siege. Across the state, local reporters reached for the same vocabulary of crisis: blizzard, blizz...
How a 1921 Commuter Crash at Bryn Athyn Changed American Railroads
On a snowy December morning in 1921, two crowded Reading Railroad commuter trains met head‑on in a rock cut outside Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and turned an ordinary rush hour into an inferno remembered as “Death Gulch.” Within moments of th...
The Curse That Gripped York County
On a cold November night in 1928, three frightened men walked up a lonely lane in York County, Pennsylvania, convinced they were about to confront a witch. By the time the sun rose again over what locals called Rehmeyer’s Hollow, farmer and...
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Barbara Jean May is a Pennsylvania family history research specialist. She has been researching her personal genealogy since 1985. She has experience with researching Polish and German genealogy, and a focus on the SE region of Pennsylvania.
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