Located the 1940 census record of the Asa Dillon household in Black Hawk County, Iowa. Asa's wife Alletta was my maternal 3rd cousin 4 t...

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

It's been a little over a month since mom submitted her application to the National Society for membership through our ancestor, Francis...

While searching the book collection at FamilySearch, I came across the book "Our Smalley Lineage" by Viola Smalley Miller , whi...

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

Another one of my genealogy goals for 2016 includes working towards documenting descent for admission into heredity societies.  For instance...

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...

The PIERCE surname is in my maternal line.  The origins of the surname are English. Stories and history: Ahnentafel # 13: Edna Muriel ...

March 3 — Do you share a first name with one of your female ancestors? Perhaps you were named for your great-grandmother, or your name follo...

My maternal 4th-great grandaunt, Martha WARDLAW, married on this date in 1838 in Brown County, Ohio to John Wilcox LOWE.  Martha was the dau...

My maternal 5th-great grandfather, James ALDERMAN, married on this date in 1795 in Augusta County, Virginia to Catherine WARNER, daughter of...

My maternal 4th-great granduncle, Austin PIERCE, married on this date in 1826 to Mary Ann STERLING.  Austin was born September 2, 1799 in Th...

My maternal 4th-great grandaunt, Minerva P. PIERCE, was married on this date in 1829 to Jethro HATCH.  Minerva was born January 25, 1803, th...

My paternal 6th great grandparents, Abel BRIGGS and Lettice WOOLSTON, were married on this date in 1773 in Burlington County, New Jersey.  A...

My maternal 4th-great granduncle, Allen WARDLAW, married on this date in 1824 to Sally BROWN.  Allen was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (NE...

The Francis S. PIERCE household appears in the 1860 census of Centre Twp., Wayne Co., IN and the 1870 census of Lafayette Twp., Madison Co.,...