The deeper I dig into DNA genealogical study the more convinced I become that race is an artificial construct of the human imagination,...

Old College View Seventh-day Adventist church about 1945-1946, corner of South 49th Street and Prescott Avenue. Today I feel compelled...

Often just identifying ancestors back to the 1600s or earlier is a major achievement. Understanding something about the time period and...

After all of the time I spent on my Nantucket Origins post, I hadn't planned to write again so soon about my New England ancestors....

For the month of November I had thought it would be fun to revisit the Puritan origins of my family. But the process of reviewing the...

This week I received an inquiry requesting information about Mary Elizabeth Anderson (1887-1982) from a gentleman who believed she served...

Not long ago my cousins Karen and Errol (whose paternal grandmother, Blanche, was a sister to my great-grandfather, Clint Fox) had the...

A couple weeks ago I had the privilege speaking at the monthly meeting of the Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society. While my...

Fact checking family traditions can be pretty simple, especially when they are related to well-documented events.

Although I've been interested in the contributions DNA testing has made to history and genealogy ever since DNA testing proved that Sally...

Let me start by saying I'm not an expert on DNA testing for genealogy. In fact, I've only recently started to get into this new world....

Orason Lee Brinker with the author. Photo by Ryan Teller. A few weeks ago I, along with Union College Director of Public Relations Ryan...

My research on Gus Youngberg (see January 24, 2015 post) went a little deeper this past week when I discovered that golden cords were...

Reading and collecting information widely allows one to make surprising connections sometimes.