The earliest confirmed ancestor that I've found is Thomas Cross, my 5 x Great Grandfather, who married Hannah Canham in Great Holland (only a few miles from where my parents still live) in February 1776. On Wednesday I was in the Society of Genealogists library and I found a lovely bound copy of the...

Sharon Tate Moody has written an article about an often-overlooked source of genealogy data: bankruptcy records. She writes, "Today's economic troubles offer us the chance to understand some of our ancestors from an enlightened perspective." She then goes on to describe the types of re...

Leslie Wagner has some great tips on how to visit  cemetery and find genealogical-relevant information there. She advises that "Take a camera to photograph the headstone. Headstone rubbings will actually cause chemical damage to the stone." You can read Leslie's article in the Da...

      You know, one of the nicest things for me to realize, is that I don't have to 'cultivate' my moorish heritage, or seek it out.  I've already been living it my whole life.  The beauty is that I can just relax into 'being me.' The...

The Northern New York Historical Newspaper database, on the Northern NY Library Network, is one of the best functioning resources of it's kind I've ever used.  Now I'm reading in their newsletter about massive state budget cuts which may impact this fantastic resource - I'm sure we are goin...

Larry Gelbart, creator of MASH and the Broadway musical City of Angels, was asked why he and all his fellow writers on Sid Caesar's Show of Shows in the 1950s (including Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks -- see the movie "My Favorite Year" for a fictionalized version of this famou...

"Mary L. B." has placed an interesting article on the EOGN Discussion Forum that I wish all genealogy newcomers would read. Entitled, "Pitfalls That Can Create Brick Walls or Cause You to Claim the Wrong Ancestors," Mary details several bits of "misinformation" that most of us struggled with when we...

Genealogy is apparently the third most populat websearch, after e-commerce and pornography, so it’s no wonder that family historians are excited about the launch of the UK 1911 census online. The last time a census was made available like this the servers fell over after just a few minutes, su...

A biological disorder of the brain that runs in families, schizophrenia is the most severe of all the mental illnesses, one characterized by auditory, visual and even tactile hallucinations. Patrick Tracey has written an interesting article about inherited schizophrenia. In this case, it has been ha...

Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and many others assume that their ancestors immigrated to the new lands. However, we don't often think about immigrants to the "old country" in Europe or the British Isles. We seem to assume that they were always there. New research now sh...