AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Michigan Department of Community Health, “Death Records, 1921-1947,” database with images, Seeking Michigan ( http://cdm16317.contentdm.o...

Theo lovingly pets the polar bear that belonged to his Great-great-great-grandfather, William Bryan Robbins, Sr. 4 July 2018 Taken at t...

Nellie May Concidine, c. 1905. Unknown location, probably Grand Rapids, Kent Co., Michigan. Original privately held by Miriam Robbi...

Recently, I was given an opportunity to review the latest (fourth) edition of the classic The Researcher's Guide to American Genealo...

On a weekend when we're celebrating the birth of our country and honoring ancestors who served in the American Revolution, it seems...

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...