A Family Tapestry

  It's the end of another month, and I'm ready to grumble. My goal for this month was to break through the brick wall keeping me fro...

If this month's research project —finding the origin of my fourth great-grandfather Job Tyson—has led me to the discovery that Job's...

  Remember that old game, Monopoly, where if you drew the "go to jail" ticket, the instructions told you "do not pass Go; do ...

  What better way to determine an ancestor's origin than to discover where he met his future spouse? If puzzling over just how Job Tyson...

  If a straightforward search into my fourth great-grandfather Job Tison's roots yields us nothing but disagreeing assertions, perhaps, ...

  Yesterday , I was fairly lusting over the twelve volume set of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia . Today, I think I've gotten over it. As ...

  It was only yesterday, when perusing my Twitter feed, that I came across Judy Russell's pertinent comment in The Legal Genealogist : G...

  Finding a validating census record may seem a commonplace ritual among those researching their family history. We have many finding aids t...

  The search for information on distant relatives—such as my quest to discover more of the biographical details of my fourth great-grandfath...

  Footnotes are great for helping other researchers replicate the paper trail that led you to the family history answer you've been wre...

  A most useful concept in family history research techniques can be the " FAN" Club , an acronym representing the Friends, Associ...

  It is at times when I research ancestors like my fourth great-grandfather Job Tison that I become most aware of the fragility of family hi...

We may find ourselves going back to the usual websites for our never-ending quest to "finish" our family tree, but every once in ...

Job Tison died in Glynn County, Georgia, in 1824—thankfully, after leaving a will dated in that same year. In that will, he named his wife,...

Life in the early days of settlement in territorial Florida must have had its challenges. I have no factual basis to bolster that assumptio...

When devising a research plan, I'm accustomed to limited perspectives. "Research the Kelly line" or "get ready for that ...