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No Descendants? No Problem! Where to Donate Your Genealogical Materials

Image by rawpixel   It's a reality that not all family historians have direct descendants or interested relatives to whom they can bestow their hard-won discoveries. “What will happen to all my work?” they rightly wonder.  Curious about this very topic, I wrote about several repositories which might accept a donation of various types of genealogical materials for an article that appeared in the December 2023 issue of Stirpes , the journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. With the permission of the editors, I'm sharing the article here. Just click the PDF below to read “No Descendants? No Problem! Where to Donate Your Genealogical Materials.” While the repositories mentioned in the article are mostly Texas-centric, consider similar institutions located near you for donation purposes. URLs for the following have changed since I wrote this article: The Family History Library : https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-donate-to-family...
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GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021 - Newspaper Clipping II

GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021

Newspaper Clipping II -  January 29th entry of a 31-day challenge to post a document, photo or artifact on social media every day in January.  

by Nancy Gilbride Casey

 



This clipping is a bit of a mystery, as it was loose in a box of my Mom's things. I don't have a date or a newspaper. I'm assuming that it is from The Cleveland Press, as they are listed as a sponsor of this Folk Festival in which my Mom, Anna Margaret "Margie" Kozlina Gilbride, was performing. She is shown in the small trio to the right, on the left side. 

Mom participated in Croatian folk dance for several years, and I'm lucky enough to have several great photos of her in her costumes. I never saw any of these costumes in person, so they must have belonged to the troupes and not to her personally.

I know that Mom went on at least one tour with a folk troupe, as I have a great letter from her to her family describing the hotel she was staying in. (See Mom's Big Trip.)

I plan to do some further research to date this article and find out more about the folk festival event. Look for updates in a future post.


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