A Family Tapestry

Staring down a longstanding research roadblock, somehow hoping this time it will reveal the answers it kept secret last time, surely doesn...

  Sometimes, as I mentioned yesterday , a research proposal needs a Plan B. With Lydia Miller, my mother-in-law's brick wall second grea...

  After a wonderful holiday weekend—not to mention celebrating a blogiversary —it's time to get back to work, focusing on the May candid...

  When hitting an impasse—something in genealogy akin to a "brick wall" ancestor—it is now possible to make an end run around such...

  The challenge about researching Lydia Miller, my mother-in-law's second great-grandmother, is that her 1820 origin is unclear. While w...

  There are several details which I can affirm are already known about Lydia Miller, my mother-in-law's second great-grandmother and my ...

  It was May 31 just one year ago when I had to close the books on my search for Lydia Miller's parents. Lydia had been May's focus...

  For the past six years, I've made it my habit to slice and dice through the brick walls of four family trees—my maternal and paternal ...

  The search for the ten sons and three daughters of Lyman Jackson continues, but in this case, it is a grandson, not a son, who returns hom...

  I said I wasn't going to do this to myself for another year, but then I got an email from a fellow researcher and changed my mind. It ...

  There is no doubt that preparation makes a job flow much more smoothly. If I had any doubt that planning and preparation had any place in ...

  What happens when eight children of eight siblings go on to have multiple children of their own—and those are just the grandparents of the...

  When stuck on brick wall ancestors, sometimes I find it helpful to revisit old resources to see if perhaps I had missed a detail from the ...

  It began with a hint from Ancestry.com for my mother-in-law's second great-grandfather Nicholas Snider. Whether he actually spelled hi...

  One way to connect our ancestors to their past is to literally trace the path they followed through life—but only on rewind. We need to pl...

The good thing about finding a relative in one of those old genealogy books is that we can always double-check the book's assertions. We...

  With the beginning of a new month, we not only move on to researching another ancestor, but we shift from pursuing those ancestors from my...

  When brick wall ancestors have brought research progress to a dead stop, DNA testing can provide the bypass to reach an answer. In my case...

  March has been a month of negatives. In pursuit of my candidate for this month's Twelve Most Wanted, my second great-grandfather Alexa...

  As we move through the selections for my Twelve Most Wanted for 2025, we are bound to find some repeats from prior years' selections....