Tag Archives: genealogy

England: Nan’s birth home

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Josh Renaud
My Nan grew up in Wellingborough, England. Last week I got to see her childhood home, and today we went to her birth home in order to shoot a short little video. (Nan’s brother, Uncle Raymond, jokingly claims she was … Continue reading →

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Attack of the short hair cuts

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Josh Renaud
It’s all Ludi’s fault. Late last year she decided one day at lunch that she wanted a haircut. A dramatically shorter haircut, with bangs in front. She asked to get down from the table so she could go to the … Continue reading →

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Visiting Calvary Cemetery

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Josh Renaud
Today the weather was so amazing that I could no longer put off a small project I have long wanted to embark on: finding family gravestones at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis.

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Search old St. Louis Post-Dispatch stories (1874-1922)

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Josh Renaud
Hey, family history buffs and amateur genealogists in St. Louis County! Get out your library card, and check out an awesome new resource: ProQuest’s Historical St. Louis Post-Dispatch database It includes searchable full text and full image articles from 1874 … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Bristol

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Josh Renaud
There are uncertainties in any big trip. For me, one of the biggest concerned our time in Bristol with my great-great-uncle Jerry and his wife Thelma. Jerry is the younger brother of my great-grandma Becker. I first connected with him … Continue reading →

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Edwin A. Richter, we won’t forget you

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Josh Renaud
It was almost two years ago that I got in touch with Ed Richter. He was a first cousin to my great-grandpa Frank Becker. At that time I had made a lot of progress in developing my Becker family tree. … Continue reading →

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Family, food, history

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Josh Renaud
Family history isn’t all dusty books and blurry microfilms. Lately, I have re-discovered salsiccia. Salsiccia is an Italian sausage. My memory of it is that my Grandpa Renaud would always cook it as part of his big Christmas breakfast spread … Continue reading →

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Meeting “new” family members

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Josh Renaud
One of many neat things about doing family history research has been getting in touch with so many family members that I hadn’t talked with before. For example, I have enjoyed calling and visiting with Aunt Gertrude and Uncle Jerry … Continue reading →

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Living in the trees

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Josh Renaud
For quite a while I’ve been lurking in the shadows, watching as a new web company called Geni.com developed their site. What is Geni? It’s is a “social networking” site, sort of like Facebook or MySpace, but designed around family … Continue reading →

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Getting to know John Becker

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Josh Renaud
I’ve already written in detail about the murder of John A. Becker in 1917 in Chicago. But my main purpose in researching him was to try and see if I could find out what he was like as a person. … Continue reading →

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