December 19, 2020 The Keen Family of Broughton Gifford – Good Old Research and a DNA Mystery I had done some preliminary research on my the family of my Great Great Grandmother, Dora Keen Wardell, a while ago. I found her…
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…
July 1, 2019 A DNA Match Helps Solve A Surname Mystery My 3X Great Grandmother was Eliza Harrison Connolly. She was the grandmother of Richard Harrison Wardell. She was born in Ireland and lived in…
December 27, 2018 The Case of Two Different Maria Phillips Rundles I’ve always been aware of the Maria Phillips Rundle who was born in 1812 and was the daughter of Jeremiah Brice Rundle and Elizabeth…
December 30, 2017 My DNA Results – No Big Surprises I have held off on paying to have my DNA test done because I have most of our lines so far back that I…
June 13, 2017 Rundle Family Homestead Hole Farm Recently Sold Again I was doing some random googling and came across an article from April 2017 about Hole Farm. At the end it said that the…
April 17, 2017 Tuberculosis: Romance vs Reality As a genealogist, I’ve poured over death records and sometimes they really get to me. I hate to see a family lose all of…
November 29, 2016 Updates on Morgans of “Moor Corner” in Glamorgan I’m in the process of double checking all of my Morgan info as I get ready to put it all in book form. One…
October 6, 2016 Poldark: A Personal Connection *Note: This is a post from my old blog. I was able to re-create here. As a genealogist, I love reading stories or watching…
August 10, 2016 Bannon Update: Info on Father of Catherine Bannon’s Son In the mid 1800s in New Haven, CT, there was a Catherine Bannon and her son, Joseph, living in what I call the “Bannon…
