A Family Tapestry

  Perhaps there's something about passing the longest day of the year that begs me to crest other tipping points. We've waved the fl...

  Perhaps this is the genealogist's question: to go deep or wide when researching family lines. At the beginning, for many people, the i...

  When first starting my search for Elizabeth Plummer , my mother-in-law's sixth great-grandmother, I was concerned about access to reco...

  Looking for the history of the properties mentioned in various wills connected to the family of Elizabeth Plummer Ijams—Dodon and Bridge H...

  Yesterday, I had wondered whether it might be possible to simply search the names of tracts of land mentioned in family wills, following t...

  In reviewing the legacies bequeathed by Thomas Plummer to his descendants, I began to spot property names which seemed familiar. Just to d...

  Sometimes, a step backwards can get us moving forward. After working on my mother-in-law's Ijams and Plummer line for half a month, I ...

  Researching a sixth great-grandmother is apparently easier than I had thought. At least I can say that about my mother-in-law's sixth ...

  At first glance, comparing the wills of William Ijams and his wife Elizabeth gives us two different lists of heirs. Not that the names of ...

  To find mention of a woman in colonial America, the most likely place to look might be in her husband's records. Thus, in my search fo...

  In chasing my brick wall ancestors, I sometimes feel like the cartoon character standing at the crossroads, saying, "Which way did th...

  One predicament in finding our way to documentation from previous centuries is to actually locate such records. Finding aids can be key, b...

With one week devoted to wrapping up Lydia Miller's story and another week tracking Elizabeth Plummer Ijams, the current biweekly report...

  Since June is my month to research my mother-in-law's Ijams ancestors, I've been stretching back through the generations far beyon...

  Finding one document to pinpoint Elizabeth Plummer Ijams ' life on the timeline of colonial Maryland history cemented an idea in my mi...

  You know the genealogy drill: begin at the end and work your way backwards in time, from death to birth. It was in such a search for indic...

  There are some ancestors we research simply because we can. Elizabeth Plummer is such a case. My mother-in-law's sixth great-grandmoth...

  It's a new month, and time to extract ourselves from the convoluted search for Lydia Miller's roots. For our sixth ancestor from m...

  Among the thirteen children of Lyman and Deidama Dunham Jackson, there are two yet to review. One is the couple's eldest daughter, Ros...

  Selecting specific individuals to research for each month of the upcoming year has been my main focus during these twelve days of Christma...