A Family Tapestry

Sometimes, it takes a village—of fellow genealogical researchers—to help solve a family history mystery. That's what it was beginning t...

Sometimes, when family history research has been done over long periods of time—in some cases for me, over decades—being able to review res...

When trying to puzzle out what became of the daughters in the Edward Ryan family, the snare in the process was that invisibility to which m...

Have you ever researched a family line in which a traditional ethnic naming pattern resulted in many descendants sporting the same given n...

In the bigger scheme of things, six hours is not a very long time. But when it involves two people, strapped into the seats of a car, driv...

Sometimes, progress races by us so quickly, it nearly sucks the breath right out of our lungs. Other times, we slow to a glacial dawdle. ...

It's genealogical conference time again, and for people around my corner of the country, that means attending Jamboree , the annual Sou...