A Family Tapestry

  In seeking to identify the correct person as our ancestor, we always need to be open to the possibility that two people in the same small ...

  Ever research the meaning and history of a name? When it comes to researching my mother-in-law's messy Metzger line, my primary goal i...

  Goals seem to go hand in hand with to-do lists. We want to accomplish our goals, and placing them in a list keeps those goal before our ey...

  It is sometimes a race, at the end of a month, to finish a research goal I've set out for myself. This past month has been devoted to ...

  Come this Sunday, it will have been a month since the April 1 release of the 1950 census. The digitized enumeration has already been revie...

  After spending one solid month exploring the journey of one Nicholas Schneider —soon to become Snider after his immigrant journey to Phila...

  Face it: if we, as younger adults, never thought to ask our grandparents any questions about their grandparents, the chances are pretty m...