Uncategorized

In the process of that planning, I’ve written several goals in my genealogy journal. Knowing that I need specific goals that I can check off… Read More »2018 Genealogy Goals

Randy Seaver’s recent Facebook post, “Mused about Ancestry’s indexing rules in their Member Trees and how my tree, with over 90,000 sources, doesn’t get indexed… Read More »Update – Ancestry Indexing

Recently, I was notified by Ancestry of a DNA match for a descendant of Jane Currey Gutridge who lived in Champaign County, Ohio. Since Jane… Read More »Tackling the Hirams – Pt 1

As a retired teacher, married to a retired teacher and surrounded by teachers in my family, education is the one political issue that I follow… Read More »Valuing Education

My brother’s yDNA results came back over the weekend. The matches are interesting and yet mysterious. One of those matches is to a William N.… Read More »Mystery of William N. Crawford

About a week ago, I was ELATED when I discovered that my brother’s DNA matched a CURREY line that I have been struggling to verify.… Read More »Same Name Struggle

The Veteran’s History Project published an oral interview with John H. Garner. John Garner’s experience in the Navy was similar to Eugene Crawford’s experience. Both… Read More »U.S. Navy at 17 – USS Oneida

In trying to locate more information on a cemetery at Elwood, Kansas, my husband unearthed some interesting maps of Elwood in relation to the Missouri… Read More »Elwood Kansas & the Mighty Mo

In my post, Who Is Jenny Neal, I wrote about finding a 13 year old child living with my great-grandparents that I could not explain.… Read More »Another mystery child!