See the 1922 comparison of small-town Fairfield, IA versus New York City - it's entertaining what doing genealogy research can uncover t

Here’s a fun tip for researching relatives, especially 1st generation German ones. The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers has a wealth of wonderful information and good search capabilities.  Many papers' scans have not made it into the library, but it's worth a shot to look. If the paper had a good scan, the site can even do searches of papers written in Fraktur, the Gothic-style common in older German publications. The automated scans of o