Ancestor Soup

On the corner of Third Street and Dakota Avenue, the busiest intersection in town, sat J. J. Newberry's Department Store.  In many ways,...

  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...