Desktop Genealogist Unplugged

On April 11, 1884, the General Assembly for the State of Ohio passed an act that would allow the state to defray funeral expenses for any fo...

Last month, in my first installment of pension file stories, I introduced you to my great great grandparents, Louisa Ish Smathers and Henry ...

In my previous entry, I wrote about Louisa Ish Smathers. In order to get the complete picture, I thought a post about her husband Henry woul...

“I am nearly 48 years old, a housekeeper…” These are first words that Louisa Ish Smathers gives in a deposition taken by the Special Examin...

I'm inaugurating a new type of blog post where I confess my past (or sometimes current) sins that I have made while researching my famil...