A Family Tapestry

  Despite a messy research detour while puzzling over Lydia Miller 's roots, at the end of the month, it's time to move on. My moth...

  While family history researchers may hope for a streamlined outline of their ancestors' key life events, that is not always how the se...

  Some family stories progress predictably. From the earliest stage of boy-meets-girl to marriage, then children, then grandchildren and bey...

  I've said it before. I'll say it again: nothing is ever easy. In research, this limiting factor gives rise to warnings such as ...

  In pursuing Solomon Miller's life story as genealogists do—starting from the end, then moving toward the beginning—it might not have b...

  Sometimes, we need to broaden the circle when searching for a mystery ancestor. In the case of Lydia Miller , my mother-in-law's brick...

  Today, folks in the United States observe the national holiday known as Memorial Day. Rooted in the observance once followed in the afterm...