Tonight we are in Charleston, but our trip started yesterday. We stopped midway last night in Wilson, North Carolina. On the way there we s...

This Week in Genea-Blogging I wanna be the dude with the super-duper computer! In “Part VI: Profiling Your Ancestors,” Heather Doherty ...

Today Michael John Neill’s Genealogy Tip of the Day was “Don’t Neglect Online Trees.” Well, I followed that advice in my Brinlee research...

I was going to write a modest little piece on the modest little set of technology that I use for genealogy. Well, I  am still going to do t...

Many thanks to Jenny Lanctot at Are My Roots Showing? for pointing out a problem with my blog that may have caused people who tried to post...

This Week in Genea-Blogging Casting a nervous eye on the reliability of various types of data storage/backup - James Tanner explains why...

This week I am learning more about research in New York. I received a couple of scans of Fichtelmann family death certificates from another...

The theme for Week 17 of Amy Coffin’s “52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History,” sponsored by GeneaBloggers , is: Pets. Did you have any...