A Family Tapestry

  What if Patrick Falvey and Anne Fleming could be the parents of my current research target for this month? The documentation I found yeste...

There are some times when, seeking records of Irish ancestors, we stumble upon an old entry, stare at the miserable handwriting, and wonder,...

  Working our way backwards in time for Irish ancestors can be challenging, once we've pushed beyond the dates of those most recent publ...

  An ancestor's records may point us to her Irish origin in a particular county, and we foreigners get all excited. For someone living i...

  While the search for other ancestors may eventually put us in a tailspin, looking for a surname like Falvey has one fortunate benefit: it ...

  When it comes to stories, we often think of the quaint launch into the narrative: "Once upon a time." That may work well for fai...

  Some research projects seem to shower down multiple tidbits of information, while others only eke out a bare hint of an answer. With last ...