Alenjes Publishing
 
Naperville, IL
founded 20 April 2007
 
Goal: Develop and distribute publications that encourage and help people to preserve and share their family's history. Provide online access to records, family archives, and other information. Also see Jeff Bockman's articles at Genealogy According to Jeff
 
  
Give Your Family
A Gift That Money Can't Buy
Record & Preserve Your Family's History
5th Edition 2013
 

   Retail Price: $8.95
   ISBN 978-1-933194-88-X
   Library of Congress Control Number: 2012954733

   Published by Family Roots Publishing LLC in a joint venture  
 
Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy encourages everyone, especially senior citizens to preserve their family's history. It is also the perfect starting point for anyone wishing to research his or her family's history.
 
This revised 64 page edition has an expanded Research Section that includes three new articles:
    • Didn't Find it in the Index? - Helpful hints for searching both online websites and reference materials
    • Genealogy Travel - More than just records with examples of "Walking in my ancestor's footsteps"
    • Case Study: Finding Alvar - A not so great Dane - the 22 year search for my grandfather.
 
 
 
Give Your Family
A Gift That Money Can't Buy
Record & Preserve Your Family's History      
4th Edition 2007                                Sold Out 2000 copies

  Jeffrey A. Bockman

  Retail Price: $7.95
  ISBN 978-0-9795173-0-0
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2007928065

Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy encourages everyone, especially senior citizens to preserve their family's history. It is also the perfect starting point for anyone wishing to research his or her family's history.

 

 
 
A photograph taken in Washington DC, probably in November 1917, with a list of their names including my grandfather John G. Stevenson.
    Originally posted in honor of Memorial Day 2007.
 
 
 
 
John Gault Stevenson's letters that he sent home from France during WWI are being posted 95 years later.
 
See Letters for the latest letters and military orders
 


It was one of the major supply bases (ammunition and bread) during World War I.
History and Memorials

The base where John Gault Stevenson was based for two months and wrote many of his letters.

History of the construction of the camp by the 16th Engineers 
They had moved to the British Front by the time Grandpa was there so credit in the letters was given to a British non-com group.


 
      Online images of the parish church records from Stari Trg ob Kolpi, Slovenia.
 
      See Locations for a list of villages and towns.
  
      Filmed during March, 1999 at the church in Stari Trg ob Kolpe by Mark & Nancy Ohlde.
 
 
 
 
 
 
A book project under development - It will be a combination of family history and historical fiction.
 
This started with the family history research of my great-grandfather Theodore Bockman's life in Bluefields & Rama, Central America (Now Nicaragua).
It shows how local history events can impact a person and his family. The lives of his extended family and some of the people that he worked or interaced with and also detailed.