A Family Tapestry

  When following the trail of genealogical crumbs left in books published years ago, I'm not above considering such leads, but I still m...

  Those of us who have been researching our family's history for any time have realized how casually spelling has been treated over the ...

  I learned a long time ago that when it comes to documenting family relationships, you can't rely on just one document to confirm ances...

  It's no wonder there are three different identities for Anastasia Zegarska's daughter Rosalia Puchała on the FamilySearch.org univ...

  Now, as I'm turning back to create a timeline of name changes for both Anastasia Zegarska and her daughter Rosalia, I'm reminded ...

  When it comes to my Puchała line, I guess I've got to admit I'm stuck. I can't move that line backwards one more generation fr...

The last couple months have been rough on genealogical research results. Battling Covid for one month, then dealing with the dismay over acc...

  In the case of a young bride dying so soon after the birth of her second child, not much can be found to record her life's story—not, ...

  Family trees can do mysterious things to the identity of our ancestors. Perhaps an ancestor has acquired a false identity, as I'm begi...

  For my Twelve Most Wanted ancestors to research in 2025, the month of February has had one solitary focus: find Delaney Townsend's par...

  In the effort to piece together the story of Delaney Townsend, my third great-grandmother from South Carolina who spent her adult life in ...

  In looking at the First Families applications we've received in our local genealogical society, I often wonder what drew these immigra...

  Something unexpected popped up when I went to tabulate my biweekly progress on my family trees on Ancestry. After I noted progress on my o...

  Lacking actual documentation, there is no easier way to get a snapshot of where a migrating family wandered over the decades than to look ...

  A horrible thought struck me this past week while tying together the names which belong in my father's family tree: by doing this work...

  If we draw up a list of the facts we've gleaned from Theresa Blaising Stevens' death record , we'll have the following: Father...

  The last few weeks have been rather rough. After promptly getting sick at home following a conference in Houston—where, in the aftermath o...

  I have an ongoing tiff with the ThruLines gang at Ancestry. Yes, I'm quite sure that "gang" is really a collection of comput...

  "A nightmare is facing us...they'll all vanish." The other day, I was talking with a friend about the latest genealogical my...

  How many times when you find a family tree online which contains your mystery ancestor do you race to see where that researcher found the ...