As mentioned previously , one of my projects has been to create locality guides for places where my ancestors lived to aid in finding reso...

Deed Records, Madison County, Indiana Recorder's Office Went last Friday to the courthouse in Anderson to do some research on my Mad...

What follows is the documentation that was collected and submitted with mom's application to the DAR through Patriot ancestor Francis Sm...

John Penisten (1838-1908) was my maternal 3rd-great grandfather.  What follows is an exploratory analysis of the biographical information I ...

Jane Ann (Alderman) Penisten (1843-1919) was my maternal 3rd-great grandmother.  What follows is an exploratory analysis of the biographical...

Met with mom on Monday to discuss the process for DAR membership and talked about which Patriot ancestor to choose from.   Decided to use...

Found the 1900 census record of my maternal 3rd-great grandparents, John and Jane A. (Alderman) Penisten in the 1900 census of Monroe Townsh...

Mom's 23andMe cousin Jack matches her on two chromosomes, and matches me as well.  He is predicted to be my 3rd to 6th cousin. ...

"Rural Route 20," announcement, Alexandria Times-Tribune , 26 March 1915; online images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : a...

With today being Thanksgiving, several Geneabloggers have been participating in the meme of listing their Mayflower ancestors.  I discov...

Cousin Dave reached out to me after seeing a match with the GEDCOM file I had posted at GEDmatch.com.  Though we are not closely related, an...