A Matter of Temporary Insanity

There are times when you just have to sit and shake you head.  There are no words to describe the situation fully.   Today hosted one of those events for me.
I have been searching for one of my ancestral family for years without success.  I’ve looked at my research notes repeatedly hoping that they would offer [...]

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Slow Burn to War

While researching further information on my ancestors who served as soldiers in the Revolutionary War, I realized that over the years, my memory regarding the sequence of events leading up to and during the war was faulty.
Over time the nuggets of information and stories we find about our ancestors tend to create divergent parallel [...]

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Those Wacky Styles

Looking through some old photos of my wife and myself today, I laughed out loud a few times.
Wearing striped bell bottoms or Levi’s that always look too short seemed to be the order of the day.   Why did I wear my Levi’s so short?  Every photo showed three inches of socks showing between the bottom [...]

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Mad Dogs, Genealogists and Data Storage

Whenever I run into topics and words that were common in the mid-1800’s but are all but meaningless today, I consult my copy of Austin’s Indispensable Handbook and General Educator.  We love this old book.  It was written by George L. Austin, M.D., who in 707 pages covered every topic the young ladies and wives [...]

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Full Circle or Infinite Loop?

After a full day of family history research finding data that supports my own records, I started wondering why it was so difficult to find information on my ancestors in the first place.  The information was available on numerous and various sites.  “Ain’t the Internet great?”, I thought.
And then I started noticing identical sourcing comments, [...]

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