Three years ago I wrote a post concerning all of my ancestors and where they were during the Revolution. My ancestor David Van Every serv...

As July 1st (Canadian Independence Day) and July 4th (US Independence Day) approaches, I once again find myself thinking about my Colonial a...

Etiquette tells us to avoid discussion of Politics and Religion. However, a family historian's role is to research and tell the life st...

In the comments to my Disaster post, Thomas MacEntee of Thomas 2.0 suggested I research old newspaper articles to see if there were cholera...

This post is written for the 77th Carnival of Genealogy As human beings, our very existence is proof of the survival skills, faith, or just ...

I signed up for a 3-day free trial of Footnote this weekend. There was a 28-page dossier on my Civil War ancestor, Ebenezer Denyer, which ...

I included a poem by an ancestor a few posts ago which I found in a Fretz Family History book published in 1890. I have now entered the 7 p...

Yesterday I found a copy of Fretz Family History in the St. Louis Public Library. It was published in 1890 by Rev AJ Fretz, who published s...

This is a question I am facing. For example: My family can trace their roots back to a person named Ebenezer Denyer in Texas. We know he was...