I knew we had cousins that worked in the steel mills of Indiana Harbor . What I did not know is that it was a huge sprawling industrial community that still remains active today . Not really a rust belt area .The canal and harbor were built over several years beginning in 1901. Inland Steel Company is where three generations of these cousins worked and lived and died.
How often does one comes upon many death records for people, presumably all men, that were buried without their given name, their surnames, their ages ? Of course, if a soldier is wounded and died, he can not speak for himself but would he not have an identification tag or papers in the breast coat of his uniform ??
To an "old school" record searcher who trudged through snow, rain and heat to read records, Google Document Spreadsheets are a lifesaver. I still trudge to the libraries and family history centers and courthouses and I still xerox , fill notebooks but lately I have moved on to use Google Documents spreadsheets. When I work with myraids of film numbers in Slovakia or Hungary and hundreds of records , the data collected seems easier to handle on these Excel- like spreadsheets online.
Our oven decided to kick out right when I brought out the old cookbooks from the cupboard to start baking the Christmas baked goods . It's lovely timing which , of course , gave me more time to do research and take on additional research jobs over Christmas vacation and not feel guilty about not doing the baking for my children . Although ,there are threats that Szent Mikolas will be bringing a new stove in time to make the hungarian nut rolls .
I knew we had cousins that worked in the steel mills of Indiana Harbor . What I did not know is that it was a huge sprawling industrial community that still remains active today . Not really a rust belt area .The canal and harbor were built over several years beginning in 1901. Inland Steel Company is where three generations of these cousins worked and lived and died. 
