[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper...

More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.

Over the past few weeks, I've built out a family for Elizabeth Beake, daughter of William Beake and Mary Gibbs, and connected her to Thomas Tickner (?-1779), and illustrated much of my process in a succession of blog posts. The final pieces of evidence I've left til last, although I did allude to them in my October 27 post, Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 4…

A thought provoking assignment from Randy tonight: 1)  Review the last three or four "Best of the Genea-Blogs" posts (see 2)  Pick one of the articles listed that either helped you with your research or your writing, and/or that touched your emotions, and/or you are really impressed by. Similar to Randy, I found examples of all three: A)  I was touched by Doris Kenney's post…

First, I apologize for any confusion this post, with its many people of the same name will cause and completely understand if you abandon reading it! In the genealogy world, it's generally acknowledged that the record created closest to the time of the event will be the most accurate. As we know, however, there are always exceptions to this unofficial rule.

I had hoped to publish another Beake-related account this week, but circumstances have conspired against me. Part of the reason is I am now much-more disciplined in the amount of work I do before beginning the actual writing. Let me explain. In times past, I'd write a post, including sources, but without adding details to my Family Historian (FH) database. Ancestry is my testing tree to which I add people while working through the evidence.

The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsArchives of Ontario RG 1-100 Patent Plans Update by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. What’s new in the FamilySearch Full Text Search collection, ...

John Kent, who lived and worked in Carlisle 1837, is buried in an unmarked grave.