A Family Tapestry

  Just as I was puzzling over the lack of direction in searching for Flannery ancestors—as they say, not a moment too soon—a book arrived in...

  There comes a time in every family historian's life, I suppose, when one needs to concede arrival at a brick wall. In the case of my f...

As we follow the immigrant trails of the earliest Canadian settlers in the riverside valley locale eventually known as Lodi, California, we...

When our ancestors reported their place of birth as a foreign country—as, for instance, simply "Canada"—there is not much to lear...

One discovery, in researching the five men credited by local history as having a hand in the formation of the city of Lodi, California , wa...

For those of my friends beyond the border up north—and for all those distant cousins of my father-in-law's Irish-Canadian ancestors who...

Oh, dear. It seems there might be a tiff brewing in a neighborhood across the border. Why is it no good deed can go unpunished? Since I...