Everybody’s Related to Royalty

 
This article was at the bottom of one of my file drawers. I don’t know who authored it or when, but thank them for their work and agree with their comments about all of us being related to royalty.
Finding a link to them is great because something is usually written about them. [...]

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How Much Is Enough?

Not all that long ago, or so it seems to me, I built the first computer available for home users. My IMSI 8080 was THE big thing among us technology nuts. We were no longer tied to using a terminal hooked to a mainframe. You flipped switches on the face [...]

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Find Me on “The Wall”

The team at Footnote.com have been working on a very special project for the past few months. They’ve captured images of the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. and have added a tremendous amount of information to the names of every person listed on it.
The work has been infectious to team members and others who [...]

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Finding Charlie Stone

Brick walls or other missing information in your ancestral research are common to all of us. Frequently, the information we need is fairly close to us in time, yet seems to be as elusive as the exact birth date of an ancestor born in 1582.
Our ancestor was born or died in a sparsely populated [...]

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What If I Have Black Sheep In My Ancestry?

I often hear concern in peoples comments about doing family history research. They are afraid they will find that some of their ancestors had difficulties in life and that their actions may taint the respectability of their living descendants.
My response is, “Great”. “Now you’ll have a better chance of finding a record [...]

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Grandpa Left Me What?

Over the past 10 years, I have worked with a doctor who is researching Huntington’s Disease (HD). This terrible malady causes the degradation and eventual failure of neurons in brain cells and almost always ends in death at a fairly early age.
He contacted me because I had traced the descendancy and lineage of [...]

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Small Town Newspapers

Small town newspapers are always a family history researcher’s best friend. I’ve been looking through some old copies of one of these publications for any information on my ancestors.
Recently, I found my 2nd great grandfathers obituary published on the front page of a small town paper 80 miles and several large cities north [...]

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