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Ancestry for Free: Genealogy Research Sites That Don’t Cost a Dime
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One Girl’s Childhood During the Great Depression
Here are memories of life on an Illinois farm, as recalled by my mother, Adra Erickson Wallin (1922-2010)… “I was born at home (all four of us were), at the farm at Barbers Corner on August 18, 1922, at six... -
Why Narrative Family History Is Best
New York Times columnist Bruce Feiler asked himself, “What is the secret sauce that holds a family together? What are the ingredients that make some families effective, resilient, happy?” The answers he discovered appeared in a piece in the Sunday... -
Four Reasons Not to Write Down Your Life Story
Most of my father’s life story is lost forever. I always meant to write it down, and he always said he would do it—but when we finally made time to do it together, he died not long after we started. ... -
LitvakSIG is Participating in the 33rd Annual IAJGS Conference
Thank you to Eden Joachim, President of LitvakSIG, for this announcement. LitvakSIG is the Special Interest Group (SIG) devoted to Lithuanian (Litvak) – Jewish genealogy, heritage and family history. Our website is www.litvaksig.org. Our All Lithuania Database (ALD) containing 1.2 million records is... -
The Fourteen Garvers of Clare County, Michigan
I grew up with one brother and one sister—a typical 50s family. My mother-in-law, however, grew up in a different world—she shared her childhood with five sisters and eight brothers. Walter Garver and Hazel Alwood were married in Clare County,... -
What Happened to Ethel May Fazenbaker Murphy?
Thank you to Shelly Johnson for sharing this story with us. Whatever happened to Ethel May Fazenbaker Murphy? Growing up I had always heard about Ethel Murphy, mother to my great grandmother Frances May Catherine Murphy Fazenbaker Knepp. When I... -
Family History Centers: Billions of Genealogical Records Are Closer Than You Think
Many of us have dreamed of making our way to the amazing Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. With genealogical records on more than 3 billion individuals this family history center hosts the largest collection of its kind found... -
The Two Wives of Thomas Garver
My husband’s great-grandfather Charles Garver had a brother, Thomas, who married two sisters—Mary Ann and Ellen Heilman. Thomas Garver (1850-1902) was farmer in Defiance County, Ohio. According to notes taken by his great-granddaughter Ruth Marie Burkhart in 1943 for a... -
What I’ve Learned from “Working the Cemeteries”
I’ve loved cemeteries as long as I can remember. I think I became a genealogist just so I would have a good explanation for how often I visited them. While I go mainly to take photos for Find A Grave... -
Double Wedding Ring: The Story of Rhoda Wyatt
Last year I spent some time researching the family history of my sister-in-law Susie. Along we way we discovered some memorable stories, including that of Rhoda Wyatt (1830-1910). Susie’s great-great-great-grandfather was William Wyatt (1799-1867), a landowner in Somerset, England in...
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