A Family Tapestry

  Most months, I begin my search for the designated ancestor from among my Twelve Most Wanted for the year by saying I want to discover that...

  I confess: I'm getting impatient with Job Tyson's descendants. As I go, relative by relative through my Tyson DNA matches, I am no...

  There was something compelling about discovering that name, Conrad Snyder . Sure, that was a man who lived in the same county in Pennsylva...

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

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...

  As I've seen demonstrated so many times—even including last month's research project —it helps to check out every document that ca...

  Speed-reading the genealogy of an extended family line can help spot patterns. In the case of my second great-grandmother's possible l...

  What do you do when every document involving your ancestors is in a foreign language you don't speak? You use Google Translate, of cou...

  To understand the life of our ancestors, sometimes we cannot do so without understanding the history of the times in which they lived. Rea...

  It was Harry and Mabel's place which was the only eatery in the neighborhood, ever since the new development, called Rego Park, went i...

  Planning your New Year's Eve celebration yet? How about an evening of dinner and dancing—plus an ice show—at The Boulevard for six dol...

  Would spotting an article attributed to  The New York Times and featuring your family member tempt you to check it out? How about a World ...

  When it comes to sorting out research challenges like connecting John Jay Jackson's descendants with his Patriot father, Lyman Jackson...

  So all fingers are pointing toward southwestern Virginia for the eventual landing place of itinerant soldier William Tilson after his serv...

  If you were gifted with the most important part of your family's heritage—the family farm—would you have simply walked away from it? I...

  As the month comes to a close and I realize I have far more research to do than days to do it in, I thought of one possible project to und...

  There is a name which, due to its owner's brush with history, has been memorialized through the various positions he held and roles he...

  While finding documentation on a woman in frontier America in the mid-1700s may be challenging, in the case of Demilia Broyles, I'm ha...

  The more I delve into family history, the more I realize that maps are a researcher's indispensable friend. Here's why: remember t...

  When did the War of 1812 begin? I realize that question is somewhat like asking, "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" Althoug...