Ancestor Soup

  An unidentified South Dakota family stands proudly in front of their Hupmobile on a visit to Hand County in 1926.  These cars were pr...

Many of us have one - an ancestor who was a stinker, put quite frankly.  And this can be quite a can of worms when writing and documenting o...

A year or two ago, I checked the 1880 Agricultural Census available at Ancestry.com for two of my Ancestors from Peoria County, Illino...

I recently posted about gleaning some very helpful hints from envelopes.  After I thought I had gotten all the additional information I cou...

It’s finally happened – I’m tired of working and cleaning around the boxes of genealogy goodies I brought up from the basement months ago. ...

I love to do research.  I've been known to work on other peoples' ancestors when I hit an impasse on my own.  But I also love to se...

Oh, teacup!  You've sat in the china hutch so long I can't even remember where you came from.  Probably a garage sale or a fl...