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Note: Mildred Jane Thacker and Frances Thacker lived beside each other with their families in 1850. They, as well as their families, are lis...

The postman was very nice to me in the last two days. He gave me an envelope with four obituaries and one envelope from the US Citizenship a...

I was honored recently by two of my favorite genealogy blogging friends, Harriet at Genealogy Fun and Judith at Genealogy Traces with th...

Ah, Michael, you are the child who is so unlike me. Sometimes I have looked at you in awe, wondering how it is that I have...

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 ...