A Family Tapestry

  Today was one of those days, the type when nothing seems to turn out right. A weekend should hardly begin that way, but perhaps I can just...

  Only a genealogist would be the one to spot the appearance of a name in a family tree and realize it matches one from a relative over a hu...

  It can be hard enough trying to track down an ancestor in previous centuries without having to consider changes in the everyday customs an...

  It seems odd, now that I've switched tracks to research my paternal Polish roots this month, to compare what I can find on DNA matches...

  When constructing a family tree, perhaps we expect a diagram with lines stretching straight back into the past, never giving a thought to ...

  A memory from childhood surfaced last week while driving through Kansas for a cousin's wedding: watching mile markers fly by on the si...

  This past week, our family has been in Kansas, where my daughter was able to help with wedding preparations for her second cousin once rem...

  Though I groan and complain when I uncover confusion about double identities in my family tree, if I work through the details thoroughly, ...

  While tools and techniques may be handy for getting a job done, sometimes tools need to be recalibrated and techniques need to be revised....

  With one day remaining to this month of research, it hardly seems possible that I will accomplish my task. But what can be done if we don...

  The larger the family tree grows, the more ways we need to organize our approach to systematically research all branches. Unless the goal ...

  So there I was, sitting at my laptop and working on the endless collateral lines descended from the surnames I'd been researching earl...

  Sometimes, a month like March can seem a very long period of time. When combined with a research plan like my one-topic-a-month Twelve Mos...

  While some people spring for a DNA test simply out of curiosity over what ethnicities might show up in their test results, that has never ...

  Sometimes, it is good to recall our motivations for starting a project in the first place. After working so long on something, we can lose...

  With yesterday's discovery of additional Mayflower Society resources , it would seem my research task for the month of March is alread...

  So, what does cumulative learning have to do with genealogy? Don't let the big words scare you. If you've ever heard folk sayings...

  If we are stuck trying to find the origin and dates of ancestor William Tilson, but then discover the man served in the American Revolutio...

  I wasn't sure what two weeks of travel would do to my customary biweekly progress report. While visiting family might seem to occupy t...

  We've found a claim that William Tilson, despite already having been given land in Massachusetts , had settled in Virginia by 1763. Th...