Fortify Your Family Tree

When your ancestors come from small, isolated towns, everyone there may be your cousin. Or your cousin's cousin. I realized this in 2...

I launched this blog in January 2017. I've kept to a once-a-week schedule, making this my 667th article. This page features an automatic...

At this moment, my family tree has 83,293 people. That will grow this week as I expand my research into another town. I have deep roots in...

My grandfather's 1920 ship manifest shows him as an 18-years-old arriving in New York alone. It came as a surprise that he was heading t...

As a child I heard that my grandfather was a prisoner of war in World War I. I heard he ate rats to stay alive. It wasn't until 2018 th...

Everyone with an interest in their family tree was a beginner once. And it seemed overwhelming. Then we find our way. We make mistakes. We g...