Here it is, nearing the last week of April and it's hard to believe that I've only published three blog posts this month! You'd ...

I've missed working on my family history. I would like to get back “into it” again. I'd also like to make a stop at a little librar...

While going through my grandmother's papers (again) this weekend, I found this picture, probably taken on the same day as the one at the...

The topic for the 63rd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is: New Year's Resolutions! Jasia asks us "What plans do you have for ...

Last Thursday morning I finally connected with the lady that works in the Whitley County archives and was able to view the guardianship file...

The Clues. A photograph, with the words "Detroit Cousins" written on the back. The photograph was one that my aunt Phyllis had loa...

You know those "extra" columns in the 1870 census, the ones to the right of the place of birth? It might help your research to act...

The other day I was tired of scanning so I spent a few hours cruising the Internet looking for information about Peter Wise of Wayne County...

John Brubaker, my 3rd great grandfather, was born May 19, 1819 in Perry County, Ohio and is the son of Martin Brubaker and Nancy Neel. He pa...

In the late 1980s, while researching the family of Jacob and Louisa (Fisher) Phend , I wrote lots and lots of letters in an attempt to make ...

Being human, we all make mistakes. Once the errant data is posted "out there" on the World Wide Web it can't be taken back. An...

Like everyone else, I've come across some "mysteries" in my family research. Particularly, with the Joslin family. In Nothing ...

Well, well, well. Looks like Thomas MacEntee and I are related, something along the line of 8th cousins! Through the Freer family. Our most...

Congratulations to Jasia, who recently found a first cousin she didn't know she had and is Dancin' 10 Feet Off the Ground... Like th...

Yay! Janette (my research contact in Meade County, Kansas) found obituaries for Elmina Wise Mohler . The obit below was published in the Mea...

Went to Peru. . . The Marriage Record for May Hale and George Armstrong did not include parental information. The Death Record for May L. Ar...

At first I was going to call him Anonymous Gary but since he has a name he's not really anonymous. But his Blogger profile has no detai...