Have you been participating in the 21-Day Connections Experiment? It's an informal experiment based on the idea that having stronger family connections, including a personal understanding of your family’s history, can lead to increased resilience, u ...
Last weekend while working on my DNA project, Finding William's Father, I uploaded DNA data to MyHeritage and Gedmatch. While waiting for the DNA to finish processing, I created a timeline of Ann Munford's life and analyzed my sources. This past we ...
Last week I gave some background information and shared my objective and limitations for my current DNA project, Finding William's Father. I also sent a letter to a potential Y-DNA test taker. On Sunday afternoon I uploaded my Dad’s DN ...
I have a 3x great-grandfather who seems to have disappeared into thin air. Only one thing about the story is certain: My 2x great-grandfather William Munford Stubbs never knew his father's name. William Munford Stubbs There are a couple of ...
Last week I wrote about the transfer of lands from the family of William Penn and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to original owners. These transfers resulted in what are known as "First Titles." When one of these original owners sold their la ...
I have been working on my four-generation project for accreditation through ICAPGen. One of the types of records I need to have a good working knowledge of for the Mid-Atlantic region is land records, so I have spent the last couple of days stu ...
Today marks one year since I started blogging about genealogy, and a little over a year since I made the decision to pursue accreditation. What a great adventure! I look back on my progress over the year and am amazed at how far I've come and how m ...
2020 is the Year of the Census. With extra time on our hands for genealogical research, have you considered completing a census study for an ancestral family? I have been working on Generation 3 of my 4-generation project to submit for ...
I recently completed a client project in which the objective was to locate original church records for some German ancestors. I will be continuing the project next month, with a few additional tasks included in the objective, so I am taking some tim ...
Being stuck at home might mean you have extra time on your hands. Why not use this time to dive into your family history? There are many online resources to increase our skills and help us connect with our family's past, present, and future. Here ...