An English translation of P. Archangelus Sieffert’s 1935 history of Fort-Louis, the Alsatian fortress town where the earliest known Masseths lived — published here chapter by chapter.
One sentence in Edward Adam Masseth's diary — 'the big oil excitement at Pithole PA' — leads to the boomtown where three Masseth brothers opened a liquor store in 1866.
A small triangular lot in Rochester, New York: bought by Francis Xavier Masseth in 1837, home to his hand-built house and nailsmith shop, and traced through deeds, a will, and four decades of maps.
Why this blog exists: the stories uncovered while researching the Masseth family, with the occasional technical detour into how the research gets done.