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...

My mom always believed that she was a relatively "new" American, with all of her ancestors immigrating in the late 1800s. This is another...

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

Sometimes one research focus leads to another. That is how I got to my current project. I have spent some time over the years tackling...

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...

We all hope that our ancestors were on the right side of history. This "right side" may be arguable and subjective, but most would agree...

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

I was contacted by Patti to help identify her biological father using autosomal DNA. Over the course of this research project, she tested...

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...

I recently read a social media post where the author argued that every person dies twice. The first is a person's physical death of the...

Many users on popular commercial genealogy websites have merged two or more seemingly sole and separate individuals as one singular...