AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Sheryl Rose of Find A Grave very kindly took a photo of my granduncle's grave . Uncle Ted came out west from Grand Rapids, Michigan to...

I attended a meeting this afternoon at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) to obtain information on the Campbell House Employee ...

I received an obituary of Fredericka WILKINSON which I requested via e-mail June 15th from the Everett Public Library . I have posted it on...

Cousin Leslie Coulson sent more photos of the WIERSMA home places, and Cousin Joni Graeff also sent quite a few of the VALK home places in F...

A distant cousin, Leslie Coulson, recently visited the home towns of our WIERMSA ancestors in the municipality of Wonseradeel, Friesland, th...

Today I attended a class on Lineage Societies - one of the computer classes offered for free to members of the Eastern Washington Genealogic...

Yesterday evening, Nancy Robinson, who so kindly took photos of my Frederick WILKINSON's grave, e-mailed me with a link to his WWI Draft...

This morning I had a nice surprise when I opened up my e-mail. Two different Find A Grave photo volunteers had fulfilled photo requests. ...

I went to my local Family History Center this evening. The film I had ordered (FHL microfilm #0984231: Ottawa County, Michigan Marriage Rec...

I got two items of genealogical interest in the mail today. The first was The Grand River Times , the newsletter of the Grand Rapids (Mic...

This morning I mailed off applications for vital records for ancestors of my husband. I was prompted by the posting at GenealogyBlog a few...

I saw this AP article this evening, and thought about the implication to historians, genealogists, and researchers: "Intelligence offi...

Wow, I can't believe it's been a whole month since I last blogged! I can tell you, though, it has not been a whole month since I ...

As a member of the EWGS, I am excited to share some great upcoming events for 2006! If you go to the EWGS website and click on "Cale...

The third annual Genealogy Conference will be held Saturday, March 11, 2006 at the Spokane North Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of La...

I'm reading an interesting library book entitled Home Life in Colonial Days , by Alice Morse Earle. Originally published in 1898, it w...

Last Monday night (January 23rd), I began teaching my third online genealogy class offered through our local community college district...

Last weekend (January 21 and 22), I spend a lot of time searching in the International Genealogical Index (IGI). If you're not famili...

My sister-in-law called me last night to tell me of a discovery she'd made. She did a search for our husbands' ancestor, Henry Lyt...

Today would have been my maternal grandmother's 87th birthday, were she still living. In her honor, I sponsored her page at Find A Gra...