January 8, 2025 Libraries And Family Research I recently recieved an email from a homeschool teacher who teaches a “Genealogy and Family Trees Research Class”. She told me that her class…
October 19, 2024 Lady Jennifer Jane Bevan – Lady In Waiting To Princess Margaret Photo Above: Princess Margaret, Lady Jennifer Jane Bevan Lowther and her daughter, Sarah Charlotte Margaret Lowther after the child’s baptism Up until now,…
January 17, 2023 The Confusing Origins of Thomas Burnham – A RePost Note: I was recently going over some of my Burnham research when I realized that the post below was linked to as a source…
January 4, 2023 Edward Stanford – From Soldier to Criminal I was cleaning up some old genealogy folders on my pc and came across an article (below) that I had saved because the name…
November 28, 2022 Genetic Tie To Celtic Dobunni Tribe I used to say that although I’m technically half English / Half Irish, I’m 99% Celtic. I based this on fact that a chunk…
November 26, 2022 Splitting Up Was Easier In The Early 1900’s In my years of research, I have found multiple couples who show up in census reports as widowed when they are actually just split…
September 21, 2022 Assumptions In Research Are Tricky While working on one of my Richardson family in Lincolnshire, England, I came across an Ancestry Tree that had a newspaper clipping that was…
May 13, 2022 Interesting Story About the Portland CT Quarries Members of my Ratcliffe family from Cheshire, England traveled to the US in the 1880s and worked at the Portland Quarries. In the 1880…
January 21, 2022 Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt Release Date As some of you will recall, I did some research for Historian Jeff Harding awhile ago that resulted in some never before discovered details…
August 26, 2021 New Answers to Old Questions on Bannon Family There have been other times in my years of genealogy research when re-visiting the records for a family turn up something new that answers…
July 3, 2021 Another Case of Family Lore Changing Details The Death of Samuel Ratcliffe It’s been years since I did any serious research on the Ratcliffe family of Cheshire and Lancashire, England. Recently, due to some new DNA…
May 29, 2021 The Sad Circumstances of Morgan Bevan’s Family I recently was working on a DNA match match for my Morgan family. Elizabeth Morgan born 1815, the daughter of David Morgan of Moor…
