Thanks to everyone who has been following along on this journey. Moving onto Week 18 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, the...

April 25th is National DNA Day. DNA Day is an annual celebration of the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery...

I've previously touched on my ongoing research into Juliette DeVries here and introduced her parents and specifically her father here....

Solitude can be a complicated thing in a person's life. An introvert may desire a peaceful and quiet environment where they can recharge...

My email this week advised me that we're more than a quarter of the way through the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge! Some of...

Moving right along to Week 12 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, the writing prompt this week is "Membership." Lineage societies...

My current AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate states I am 28% Irish. My traditional genealogical research suggests I am closer to 22%. St....

Genealogy requires a lot more than simply clicking the wiggling green leaves on Ancestry.com, saving the predetermined information, and,...

I imagine we all have ancestors or family members that we wish we could still pick up the phone and talk to. Whether they died hundreds...

Week 8 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge has the potential to be a bit heavier than some of my previous posts. The topic...

Oxford defines outcast as, "a person who is not accepted by other people and who sometimes has to leave their home and friends." At one...

Long before Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram, and Facebook, even before MySpace, AOL chat rooms, and BBSes (where are my former Wizard...

Can you believe we have already made it to week 5 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge? This week's prompt is "Oops." This is such a...

Time for another addition of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This week's prompt? Education. Education hasn't been a significant focus of my...

Back for week three of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge. I struggled a bit more with this topic, than others. Not because...

Continuing with the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, genealogical writing challenge, this week's prompt is, "Favorite Photo." Similar to last...

As someone new to writing a blog, I'm already finding myself anxious over what to write about, how long a post should be, how often to...