A Family Tapestry

  When it comes to summer, thinking it's over after passing Labor Day is so old school. Summer apparently can begin or end when the loca...

  I know, I know: the coast has been clear for quite some time now. But I live among the cautious ones. Our genealogical society had only la...

  It was the beginning of March and, as soon as I could, I opened my RootsTech account, even before the first session had started. Why? I wa...

  It's been a busy season for me, coming out of pandemic isolation and back into the always-rush-hour world of inter-connectedness. In j...

  What is it about this pandemic season that makes us feel as if we'll never travel again? I already know that isn't true. My husban...

  After all the effort, over this past month, to confirm the father of Mary Carroll Gordon, my mother-in-law's third great-grandmother, ...

I've often wondered why, when I first began my personal genealogical research, I could remember every twist and turn in the unfolding b...

Yesterday was a different day for this family history hound: we set aside the questions and the conversations we'd been following, and ...

It isn't often that we, as our family's historian, actually get to meet up with someone who will show even a modicum of interest—in...

By the time you read this, I will hopefully be winging my way eastward on a research trip to Florida. Unlike last week's trip—when rese...

So it's time to think of all the things I'd like to ask the elder members of my family—at least, for the ones who are still with us...

If you guessed that the first hurdle on this night owl's learning curve is getting up early in the morning, you are correct. But there ...

It's been a while since I last took to the road to do some serious research at a genealogical repository. Since I'll be heading to ...

There are some days, filled with good intentions, which take a wrong turn somewhere, and land us far from our expected destination. Like da...

Today may be the springboard into another weekend—another weekend leading up to the holidays, no less—but that doesn't signal any excus...

Home again. It's been a productive research trip, although one which was very different from the usual tour through libraries or archiv...

Every now and then, I read things written by someone having absolutely nothing to do with genealogy, and yet—no surprise here—what I read l...

Sometimes, a research journey can unearth momentous discoveries. Other times, well, a few more chinks chipped out of the genealogical brick...

One of my goals, in traveling to northern Florida to research my maternal grandmother's roots, was to see if I could explain what I fel...

"We may be related," the woman just inside the door to the Suwannee Valley Genealogical Society library announced to me as I ste...