A Family Tapestry

  The verdict is in: spending weeks reading legal documents can slow down one's research progress. At least in the case of my family his...

  As exciting as it was yesterday to find mention of the paternal grandfather of my brick wall third great grandfather Thomas Firth Rainey, ...

  Sometimes, genealogy research seems to gain lightning speed, even after having been stymied for months, even years. That's what happen...

  There will always be complications encountered by those pushing back through the generations in search of their family's history. That...

  After finding a document regarding an exchange of property which named several children of Thomas Firth, my fifth great-grandfather, I wa...

  In looking up documents regarding brick wall ancestors, eventually we get to a point where we start to notice we've been seeing the sa...

  FamilySearch.org's Full Text Search is becoming my new best friend. When it comes to researching those hard-to-find ancestors from cen...

  As often happens in genealogy research, one long-awaited breakthrough precipitates others. Whereas before, that brick wall seemed impenetr...

  Succeeding with this month's research project to find the names of my third great-grandfather Thomas Rainey's parents— Isham Raine...

  Ever since the 1980s, there has been a comic strip featuring a title I love: " Sally Forth ." The title itself is a play on word...

  Over fifty years after the fact, Thomas F. Rainey reported that he had been born in the state of Virginia. While the sole location of any ...

  If the goal this month is to research a family which had originally lived in Virginia, how did they get to Georgia? Though we are barely i...

  Beggars can't be choosers, as the saying goes. When there isn't much to go by, we must take what we can get. In the case of my fou...

  Work on last month's research plan got me thinking it was a productive month. Now that it's time for my biweekly count, we'll ...

  The month is out, but not the messy project I had planned for January . Perhaps it's a rule: in genealogy, we always bite off more tha...

  Though we may have struck out yesterday in our review of possible matrilineal lines of descent for the wives of John Carter of colonial V...

  If my search for matrilineal descendants of my fifth great-grandfather John Carter's wives were a baseball game, I'd say we are ab...

When moving into new territory, it helps to have a trailblazer lead the way. That thought, however, comes with caveats. Is the trailblazer r...

  Working our way through the lines descending from my fifth great-grandfather, John Carter, one detail is apparent: he had a lot of daughte...

The Goodloes were a family of excellent standing in Spotsylvania and Middlesex, and later in Kentucky, where a Mr. Carter Goodloe was quite ...