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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 16, "Storms" Disaster struck my great-great-grandparents' town in the fall of 1869, when a storm hit the...

Summer 1862. The Civil War raged. Lincoln called for more Union army volunteers. Pressure to enlist was tremendous. After meetings were...

This week's theme for our "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" is Strong Woman. I don't know much about my Scottish great-great-grandmother Helen...

52 Ancestors Week 6: My favorite name for an ancestor so far is Cassius Clay Auld. Cassius was born in Pennsylvania on the eve of the...

I was amused by this 1900 U.S. census record of my 2nd great grandparents Aeneas V. Graham and his wife, Amanda P. Underwood (Graham) in...

I would love to have been sitting at this dinner table with my great grandmother Jeannette "Nettie" Clyde Beveridge (Dingman), and 7 of...

Curious to see if there were any patterns to length of life for my ancestral families, I created a chart. The one who lived the longest...

Bayside Hotel, Keyport, New Jersey, c. 1900 The photograph pictures my great-grandfather's first hotel in Keyport, New Jersey, the...

How I was hooked by genealogy: Was it Mom telling me about her grandmother dying in a tragic 1906 accident involving an early motorcar...

My grandparents, Anne Bauer and Norman McLeod Dingman, married secretly in 1916. Anna Fredericka Bauer and Norman McLeod Dingman Anne,...

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"William's Conway, c. 1890" Ann D. Watson 2017 Watercolor crayon and pencil on paper 5 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches Buildings L to R: Burkeville...

Putney, Vermont, Summer 1961. I'm 9 years old. My cousin Susan is visiting us at our home on River Road. One day, an exploration takes us...

Here's a little map of a genealogical research trip I made to North Hero, Grand Isle County, Vermont. Creating maps is fun and can help...

Today I honor my great-great-grandfather William Watson, who worked in the Burke/Delabarre woolen mill in Conway, Massachusetts, from...

I recently visited Cumberland Island, the largest barrier island off the coast of Georgia. I don't pretend to know very much about this...

Really looking forward to Harold Henderson's June 2017 GRIP course on writing proof arguments, "From Confusion to Conclusion." See all...

Being a hand bookbinder as well as a genealogist, I recently delighted in early Grand Isle County, Vermont court docket books. These...