[this is reposted from our old site] I’m not certain of the origin of this joke, […]
New information is always good to get. The problem is that the temptation is to right […]
We’ve moved the date of this presentation to 15 September. Registrations are no longer being accepted, […]
Erasmus and Anna Catharina (Gross) Trautvetter of Wohlmuthausen, Thuringia, Germany, did not immigrate to the United […]
On 30 August I was in ten circles on AncestryDNA. I’ve been removed again from the circle […]
Occasionally I get asked “why” I mention errors and other issues at Ancestry.com. There is really one reason: […]
Ancestry.com announced an update of their yearbook collection. A quick search of the database indicated two things: my […]
Registration ends today (7 September) for my new webinar on AncestryDNA–“Working with Your DNA Matches.” This session […]
The partial answer to what happened to the eight children of Erasmus and Anna Catharina Trautvetter […]
I’ve been writing quite a bit about the Trautvetter family lately. Perhaps a little more than […]
Here a Johann, there a Johann, everywhere a Johann. The problem is that they were not […]
Wilhelmine (Trautvetter) Senf Kraft is one of those people with a big gap in her life–at […]
I knew the transcription was wrong. My seventy-one year old ancestor was not living with his […]
Christian Troutfetter was born Thuringen, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in the 1850s. He […]
Sound genealogy methodology requires that conclusions be revisited when new information is obtained. That’s exactly what […]
The gentleman I hired to research the records of Helmershausen, Thuringia, Germany, has located the children […]
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