Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
This week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge asked about names that run in the family. I thought the answer would be Noah, Nelson, or John—but… Read More »Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
FAN Club and yDNA
Sorting Out the Crawfords of Early Kentucky Do you have a FAN Club for your brick wall ancestor? Have you mapped the Friends, Associates, and… Read More »FAN Club and yDNA
Friday Find
Do you have Bible records buried in your files that don’t belong to your direct ancestral line? Today’s Friday Find is one such record. The… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
Another Case of the Wrong John Crawford Apparently, ordering California death certificates and receiving the wrong CRAWFORD was a recurring theme in my genealogy research.… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
When the Wrong Record Still Tells a Story Genealogy research rarely follows a perfectly straight path. Sometimes the record you want is missing. Sometimes the… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
Ordering a Social Security Application from the SSA Genealogists today are accustomed to finding records with a few clicks—census records, draft registrations, newspaper articles, and… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
A Handwritten Note about the “Other” James Crawford Do you have handwritten notes tucked away in your genealogy files that lack any documentation? Perhaps they… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
Finding newspaper articles today is often as simple as typing a name into a search box. Thirty-five years ago, that wasn’t the case. Back then,… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
Have you ever sat in front of a microfilm reader, hand on the crank, slowly scrolling through page after page of newspapers in hopes of… Read More »Friday Find
Military Discharge Paper at Courthouse
When researching family history, some of the most valuable records can be found in unexpected places. In Kansas, military veterans often filed copies of their… Read More »Military Discharge Paper at Courthouse