A Family Tapestry

  It's not just the direct line connection to a First Families ancestor that fascinates me. It's tracing the connections of all the ...

  In working on First Families projects, we sometimes anticipate receiving records of significant men and women who were instrumental in bui...

  For this month's goal, as laid out almost a year ago in my Twelve Most Wanted research plan , I had thought that surely there were no ...

  I spent the last day of November binge-adding documents for Laskowski and Gramlewicz collateral lines as my last-gasp kiss goodbye to the ...

  It should have come as no surprise that families from small communities would, over the generations, intermarry with relatives. Yet, when ...

  There are some people for whom a holiday like Thanksgiving does not make a good fit. It's not that they're ungrateful for all the ...

  On a day like today—Thanksgiving in the United States—when we're surrounded by generations of family members, a genealogist's thou...