A Family Tapestry

  As I'm explaining the collateral lines I've found for the Radomski family, you might be wondering, "Why is it Susanna Radom s...

  Since I'm traveling this weekend, I thought it would be the perfect time to take some genealogy R&R. Not that I'm taking a vac...

  Today was one of those days when I just couldn't muster the resolve to hit the research trail where I had left off. Perhaps my mind wa...

  Some months just take us by surprise. Or, put it another way, some months just grab us and slap us around. Knock the breath out of us. Fun...

  Fourteen years ago, this date—May 8—was a Mother's Day. I remember it well, for the day's designation didn't set well with me....

  Why is it that no woebegone child told any teacher that the homework wasn't turned in on time because the cat  ate it? Yet, here I am ...

  When the temperatures skyrocket, guess what genealogists do? We're deep in the midst of a heat wave, with hundred-plus degree weather ...

  There are some moments when the mind cannot tolerate staying focused long enough to trace even the most obvious of family relationships. T...

  It may be the middle of the week in the beginning of a research month which is far, far from my stated end goal, but today I need to take ...

  The past twenty four hours have brought me one of those dog-ate-my-homework days again. I truly, honestly had good intentions to work on t...

  You could almost hear the sound effects when I wrote about my missing file folder for the Lee family the other day. (I know at least one p...

  It took me a few days to realize that, while hot on the trail of the unnamed daughters of William Ijams, I forgot one significant detail. ...

  Perhaps it's no surprise to learn that a family history researcher would feel more comfortable with the old rather than the new, the t...

  Incredibly, it's been a long six weeks since I last entered any research notes on that continual quest to mine the stories in our fami...

  There are times when the deluge of life events can conspire against us. For me, this weekend was one of such times. As is often said, when...

  Do you ever have one of those days? You know, the kind in which everything you planned somehow doesn't go quite as planned? Well, that...

  The plan for March: dive energetically into the pursuit of my fourth great-grandfather, Charles McClellan, discovering all I can about his...

  Well, here I am, tentatively peeking out from under the Covid covers to survey the damages of a very rocky two weeks past. It's great ...

  With thanks to those of you perceptive enough to find a way to perform a virtual welfare check, yes, I've been absent over the weekend...

  One of the reasons why I keep checking my research progress is specifically because of that saying: inch by inch, anything's a cinch. ...