Final Touches on the First Draft
I’m getting close to “done” with this first attempt at a family history book. My “small” project is about 3-400 pages at this point. I&#...
Black Sheep
~ black sheep in search of skeletons ~
~ black sheep in search of skeletons ~
I’m getting close to “done” with this first attempt at a family history book. My “small” project is about 3-400 pages at this point. I&#...
Have you found a lot of DNA matches? I’ve done Ancestry and 23&Me DNA tests and both companies have found 10s of thousands of DNA matches f...
I’m planning a trip to visit my dad for his birthday. There will be some family there and I want to share what I’ve discovered so far with...
A time machine. Whatever terms you need. I could stay invisible like a ghost so I can’t change anything, for example. I’d like to be able...
You would think your family tree was written in stone and would never change – but that’s not the case. Just this year my tree has transfo...
I was almost related to George Washington, by marriage at least. Turns out the family mythology was only true if you went back to Noah… But I di...
So what is it like to document my family’s slaves? First of all, there isn’t a lot of information. There is a will… and an image of...
This year black history month is about more than Rosa Parks. Since I’ve started doing my genealogy on WikiTree I’ve participated in a few...
At least… In this case one side says he got married young and they lived happily ever after until death did them part. The other side says he go...
I’ve started to “prune” my family tree. I think finding out someone wasn’t who you thought they were flings you out into the ...
I’ve been trying to get some family lists together today. There are a lot of grand-aunts and uncles who had half a dozen kids each. It’s r...
I should name my family tree: DYSFUNCTION. So what happens when your impressionable pre-teen watches you move to a new town and go around telling ever...
"My mom did a lot of research on this man for my grandma. Grandma tried to apply for social security when she was 65 and was told she did not exist. H...
I’m trying to find some record for a long-lost cousin. There was a newspaper clipping that looked promising – an obituary for the husband of a...
Hi there, I’m your illegitimate cousin. My great-grandmother was the woman your great-grandfather: Seduced? Raped? Paid? One of th...
After a troubled relationship in life, I got some satisfaction today by successfully putting my mother in her place. No, not like you might think̷...
I’m trying to do more than just make sure my mom’s research doesn’t go to waste. I’m also trying to take that to the next leve...
I wrote a short bio for my mother. FINALLY. It’s been so hard to figure out what to say about her, but after spending a week or more writing bio...
I’ve been working on a lot of family tree websites. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a website attempt to make ONE tree for every...
I’m getting a lot of clues and hints from websites like Ancestry and MyHeritage. They make this family tree TOO easy to create. How easy you may...
They say that you are never really dead as long as someone remembers you. I think about that sometimes while climbing around in my family tree. Take ...
I was always interested in family history. One of my earliest memories is asking my great-grandmother what it was like to live through the turn of the...
SURNAMES: Freeman-Timmons, Young-Ross, Scott-Pilcher, and Scott-McElvain