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…
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…
October 1, 2020 A New DNA Match Helps Connect Stanford Families When I put together my first genealogy book back in 2013 I ran in to the challenge of deciding how to include not only…
July 4, 2020 Updated:Genealogy Research Helps Solve a Civil War Mystery Updated to add link to the article online: History.net: The Lost Story of Kate the Secret Love of Gettysburg First Hero A few years…
January 7, 2020 Warning – Ancestry Trees Are Not Always Fact Below is what I posted on Facebook today after getting another reply from someone with an obviously flawed tree on Ancestry. I had a…
