A Family Tapestry

  What is that saying about good things coming in threes? This third month of 2026 may have been filled with lots of family history discover...

  It's been a month filled with large court files regarding the intestate estates of Rainey men and their related families—not to mentio...

  The verdict is in: spending weeks reading legal documents can slow down one's research progress. At least in the case of my family his...

  One last time this month—at least for this puzzle regarding my fourth great-grandfather Isham Rainey—I've headed back to those DNA mat...

  Having hopes of discovering whatever became of the siblings of a fourth great-grandfather, even if his name was as unusual as Isham, may h...

  As exciting as it was yesterday to find mention of the paternal grandfather of my brick wall third great grandfather Thomas Firth Rainey, ...

  Sometimes, genealogy research seems to gain lightning speed, even after having been stymied for months, even years. That's what happen...