A Family Tapestry

  Trying to trace an ancestor through times and locations in which record-keeping was not, ah, shall we say a precise science can be frustra...

  Do you ever find yourself getting envious of those researchers who brag about working on their seventh or eighth great-grandparents? Nah, ...

  The pursuit of family history, despite now being so heavily digitized, can still leave an enormous paper trail in its wake. Let's just...

  So, you've worked on garnering all the facts about your ancestor from governmental records—wills, marriage records, maybe even census ...

  After seeing what little could be found on an ancestor from governmental documents of the early 1800s, the idea was to garner resources fr...

  It was the third son of Job Tison whose biographical sketch, published in the Brunswick Advertiser on February 19, 1879 , led fellow rese...

  In looking for any published reminiscences by the children of Georgia pioneer Job Tison, I realized the more likely choice for a productiv...