by Old Mentz | Aug 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
A friend of the Society sent in a scan of an envelope which was addressed to Mary J White, Pres[sident] Corps #207, Port Byron, NY. The sender was Mrs. Ada Mohr of Brooklyn, who was the President of the Woman’s Relief Corps. The question was if I had ever heard of...
by Old Mentz | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am so pleased to announce that the Lock 52 Historical Society has completed the first phase of the digitization of the Port Byron newspapers. Last December I wrote in my monthly column that I thought that the available digital copies of the Port Byron papers began...
by Old Mentz | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hello to all you family researchers. I wanted to begin a column which will give you updates as to current genealogical happenings and discoveries at the Society. About a year ago in 2019 the Society received a couple large photo albums from the Robert’s family,...
by Old Mentz | Jul 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Higby family is just visiting our site so that a possible family member can see them, and maybe they might wish to take them in for a longer visit. Whenever we find family photos, we try to reach out to researchers so they might see them.
by Old Mentz | Jun 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
There are times when you look at history and never see it. For years I have seen the photograph shown above at the Pine Street house. It is a large photo about the size of a old style wall calendar. However it is very faded and I have only given it a quick glance or...
