I Stalk Dead People

Someone got buried in 1881, but probably not someone
named Mary Anne Maddicks

This blog is two years old, and this is the first time I’ve really covered genealogy. Oops. It’s odd that it hasn’t come up since not only have I used genealogical research over and over on this blog, but I’ve been researching my own genealogy for about the last sixteen years.

In the blog, I’ve used genealogical research to find out more details about the people I’ve written about as part of the general background material of the blog post. “Hey, this person seemed so active in the Esperanto movement. What happened? Oh, they suddenly died.”[1] The same techniques that go into finding out where great-great-grandpa lived.[2]

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More on Mrs. Hausdorf, an 1883 Legal Case

Yelling insults in the street?

Yesterday, I wrote about an item that appeared in the June 30, 1883 St. Paul Daily Globe. I was more interested in the story of Joseph Carp, who said that his "passions were unlike those of other men." Just to give some flavor to the piece, I noted some of the other people who came in front of the judge that same day.

A friend of mine wondered more about the argument between Mrs. Hausdorf  and Mrs. Reimer. I considered them amusing but ancillary, and didn't follow up on them at all. But I could.

Here's the full account, giving more than I gave yesterday:

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