A Family Tapestry

  With the beginning of a new month, we not only move on to researching another ancestor, but we shift from pursuing those ancestors from my...

  It can sometimes be hard to close the book on an unfinished research project. Still, a month is a month, and I promised myself that each o...

  Some quests for mystery ancestors produce lots of leads or round up unexpected relatives. Not so this month. For the last two weeks, espec...

  At a loss for how to solve my research problem this month—finding the parents of my second great-grandfather Alexander Boothe—I decided to...

  When brick wall ancestors have brought research progress to a dead stop, DNA testing can provide the bypass to reach an answer. In my case...

  March has been a month of negatives. In pursuit of my candidate for this month's Twelve Most Wanted, my second great-grandfather Alexa...

  Double-checking facts found for a brick wall ancestor? Maybe make that a triple-check. Or possibly a quadruple-check. Just in case someone...