SHERMAN AND ALBERTI HISTORIES

Megan Kunze, my great niece, is an archival archeologist. Insatiably curious, tenacious, (she might say obsessive) she sifts through...

If you are a regular reader, and invested in the timeline and history of Albert and Laura, I highly recommend reading Part 1 of this...

I research in some capacity just about every day. Most of the time I don't find anything. I do more ruling out of theories and resources...

I’ve been quiet on the blog front for a few weeks. I am waiting, not very patiently, for Laura Alberti’s patient records from the MO...

There is a saying I have heard a few times in my life...The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over and...

Sometimes I think I should have paid better attention in my English and journalism classes in college. I use too many analogies, changes...

Last night I spent a few hours searching through 1800s Pienza birth records for Giuseppe Alberti (Albertos father). No dice. This guy’s...

**Disclaimer** this is a blog takeover. Uncle Danny invited me to write about my recent trip to Italy and my recent family research. This...

Mary Trulucia White - born 28 October 1886 in Independence, Missouri - died December 30, 1940 in Independence, Missouri My grandmother...

Aaron Bloch – born in Germany 1823 – date of death November 26th, 1897 in Saint Louis, MO Charlotte Sarah Bloch (Alberti) born in Saint...

Albert was plagued with stomach troubles for sixty odd years.  It was possibly some pathogen picked up from contaminated water on the...

The danger my dead relatives face is wrongful conviction of some odious crime, or at minimum, slander by insufficient evidence I find in...

Examining what went on inside Albert’s head to see what made him tick would take an advanced degree in psychiatry. Still, it’s fun to...

My great-grandmother, Sarah Ann Robertson (1854-1940), was prejudiced against all Italians. There was a lot of anti-Italian sentiment in...

This is a passport picture of Albert and Laura Alice Martz. She is the reason Charlotte, his first wife, hired a detective. I find no...

From along icy shadowed halls of the Sant’ Antimo Monastery, resident monks and students were converging towards the chapel, for it was...

Probably the monastery was just what it was, a place where a young man could get a sound education. The concentrated Greek and Latin...

Answering the door bell some six years ago now I opened the door to a triad of conspirators. They stood huddled in the entry looking both...

My mother’s mother, Mary Trulucia White, was born in Independence, Missouri in 1886. Interestingly, my mother shared few anecdotes or...