A few ramblings based on my  AncestryDNA test: Helped one correspondent narrow down where her grandfather probably fit […]
Registration for this week’s webinars is ending on 11 July 2017 at 10 PM central time–to make […]
Regular readers know I have a fair number of relatives in Hancock and Adams Counties in […]
She died probably in Nicholas County, Kentucky, after the 1850 federal census enumeration. I debated how […]
Sarah Tinsley was born in the 1770s probably in or very near to Amherst County, Virginia. […]
John Ehmen died in a military hosptial in Quincy, Illinois, on 12 November 1864. He was one […]
James Rampley was born in England in the 1750s–probably in County Suffolk. He married Sarah Gibson […]
Fold3.com is offering a free trial (through 15 July 2017) to utilize it’s Revolutionary War materials. […]
Thomas Sledd was born in Virginia and died in Kentucky in 1815. He married Sarah/Sally Tinsley in […]
I am having to re-record the following presentations, so we are offering new live sessions of […]
It did not dawn on me that the section of the grantee index to deeds for […]
I’ve changed the names of the submitters to protect their identify. A, B, C, D, and […]
For those who find the daily updates too much, a weekly blog update is available. An […]
The postcard of the Bethany United Church of Christ in Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, that I […]
Enoch Tinsley was born in (probably) Kentucky in the 1790s and died in Shelby County, Indiana, […]
This was reprinted from the former Ancestry Daily News–it originally ran 8 August 2000. It’s just as […]
Fold3.com is digitizing a variety of National Archives and Records Administration and making them available to their […]
It’s rare for one newspaper clipping to suggest as many records as this one does. But […]
Melinda Sledd (Newman) was born about 1799, probably in Amherst County, Virginia. She married Augusta Newman […]
I’ve been asked to speak at the annual Ufkes reunion in Carthage, Illinois, early in July. […]
Augusta Newman was born in Maryland in the late 1790s and died in White County, Indiana, […]
Our goals here are simple: share research frustrations discuss methods and sources discuss pitfalls and ways […]
We are offering two new webinars on 6 July: Before You Cross that 19th Century Pond […]
I was in high school and I wanted to join First Families of Ohio. The reason […]
It exists. I’ve been there.  But you can’t search your matches AncestryDNA for individuals born in Tioga, […]
To facilitate my own use of my results on AncestryDNA, I posted my tree which I […]
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