Do genealogy “brick walls” actually exist? Some say they do and others say they don’t. […]
[This ran in the Ancestry Daily News in 2002–we’re rerunning it since it’s always a […]
Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings! I posted this image to Genealogy Tip of the Day, but thought […]
A reader asked about the dots that appeared after the two names in the image used […]
Ancestry.com recently indicated that their 1905 Iowa state census database is “updated.” It is difficult to […]
These references in the “Suggested Records” for a passenger list for Panagiotis Verikios are confusing and […]
The information on the 1900 census form seems redundant: year of immigration to the United States […]
There’s a reason why solid genealogical conclusions should not rest solely on one printed word in […]
One can discover a variety of items in the classified and advertising section of newspapers. […]
After researching my maternal Ostfriesen families for thirty years, I’m reasonably familiar with most renderings of […]
Ancestry.com’s “Illinois, County Marriages, 1800-1940” indicates there are five “marriage records” for Riley Rampley and Nancy […]
This is a lesson in what not to do. In the fall of 2015 my great-aunt […]
Charts are always helpful. Between the early 1860s and 1903, nineteen descendants of Jurgen Ehmen Tonjes […]
Things always make more sense when one has more information. I was not really certain which […]
The answer to who the John Gronewold was that contested the 1880-era Dawson County, Nebraska, homestead […]
In 1940 the eighty-seven year old wife of my cousin Willm Ehmen flew from Moline, Illinois, […]
Today’s Genealogy Tip of the Day, “Build Your Skills By Learning More on a Done Family” was necessarily […]
For those who have asked, this is a partial list of genealogical references on my bookshelf. […]
Sometimes looking for one thing leads to realizations that have never been made. Some background: Tonjes […]
Variant spellings are the bane of the genealogist’s existence. Often common sense and a little thought […]
It cost a dollar to get a United States passport in 1889. At least that is […]
Sometimes the best discoveries are made by accident. A search of the “New York, Passenger Lists, […]
The beauty of full-text searches is that it facilitates the finding of references that otherwise would […]
[from 20 May 2015] I use the online trees for the occasional clue. However in reviewing […]
My original genealogy database started in the mid-1980s when I began using Personal Ancestral File. I […]
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