Desktop Genealogist Unplugged

Land Patent Records I come from a long line of farmers. During the nineteenth century, most branches of my family tree made their living in...

I have been anxious the last six months as I realized that my job, like that of millions of others, was in serious jeopardy. As the economy ...

For the last year and a half, my drug of choice has been genealogy, double stacked with a heavy dose of blogging. Every odd slivered moment ...

It hung there, on my bulletin board - forgotten underneath the doctor’s appointment card, a receipt of a long since mailed certified letter,...

© 4 March 2009, Desktop Genealogist Unplugged, Teresa L. Snyder 

I’m not sure if you can ascribe this week’s quote to positive thinking, but it highlights what I see as a personal flaw in my own psyche. Fo...

Whether we know their names or not, each of us has 16 sets of third great grandparents who served their own specific role in our existence. ...