A Family Tapestry

  ...there may still be a way. Yesterday , we were puzzling over why Maude Woodworth Bean 's paternal grandmother, Eliza Smith, would ha...

  Surnames can have a "Goldilocks" syndrome of their own. When they are too rare, it's hard to find enough records to facilita...

  Sometimes, it takes building someone else's tree before you can get down to the business of building your own. Right now, I'm raci...

  If you stumbled upon the given name Mariet in your family history wanderings, and thought maybe, just maybe, that might be a hint to look ...

  This month, I've spent a lot of time working on the lines related to Marilyn Sowle Bean, the woman whose photograph collection I rescu...

  Pinning one's research hopes upon the life events of one solitary person can become disappointing. Take the case of our Maude Woodwort...

  Why can't archived newspaper collections contain the complete holdings of a given newspaper? What's up with gaps in publication da...