AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

I've just created a new Facebook group, Historical City Directories , for those genealogists and historians who are interested in l...

Anthony Fredenburg, my 4th-great-grandfather This Memorial Day weekend, I want to focus on a man that I recently learned was likely my...

(click to enlarge image) Postcard to Miss Rena Lerfald in Glendive, Dawson Co., Montana from Sophia [unknown - possibly Lerfald] in unk...

Recently, I discovered that Ancestry had added the Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880 - 1937 database to its collections. While I don't have ...

"Mug books" are collections of biographical sketches usually found within county histories of the late nineteenth- and early twent...

I'm thrilled and honored to announce that Family Tree Magazine has selected my  Online Historical Directories site as one of its 1...

I often tell people I have Michigan roots, but I think it’s often not conveyed as to how deep and wide those roots grow. I am the first ...

Yesterday on Facebook, my genealogy friend, J. Paul Hawthorne , posted a cool birthplace pedigree chart, using Microsoft Excel. I created on...

Just before Christmas, I received an email from a man who said he might have more information on the family of one of my brick wall ance...

Articles and posts that caught my eye: Ancestry to Retire Family Tree Maker Software by Kendall Hulet at Ancestry.com Blog - Big new...

Click photo to enlarge The Family of Isaac and Rebecca (Hewitt) Luke, c. 1888. Unknown location, possibly Avon, Bon Homme Co., South Dak...

Click photo to enlarge The Family of Isaac and Rebecca (Hewitt) Luke, c. 1888. Unknown location, possibly Avon, Bon Homme Co., South Dako...

It was a typical evening; nothing out of the ordinary. Twelve-year-old Maria Hoekstra was heading home with her father and two neighbor boys...