Hannah, wife of Jacob Lemasters, has no known maiden name — and "Hannah Lowe," the name carried by roughly 132 online trees, is re...

A single government file settled this week, in one stroke, a question this blog has carried for years: was James Wesley Harris really the so...

  By working through the documentation process and verifying each of the facts in my database for my maternal grandmother, I discovered a mi...

Of all the families in my tree, the Woolstons of Burlington County, New Jersey, are the one I have had to rebuild most completely this year....

In October 2008, I posted the will of my ancestor George Wright (1780–1853) of Washington Township, Brown County, Ohio ["Will of George...