Genealogy research often begins with one person. You find an ancestor’s name. You locate a census...
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The People Who Disappeared From History
Every genealogist eventually finds one. You follow a family line through the years, finding names...
Finding Your Ancestors in Fraternal and Lodge Records
For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, belonging to a lodge or fraternal...
What Coroner’s Inquest Records Can Tell You About Your Ancestors
A death certificate can tell you when and where your ancestor died. An obituary might name...
Did Your Ancestor End Up in the Poorhouse?
You find your ancestor living with the family in one census. Ten years later, that person is gone...
American Folklore in Oklahoma
Oklahoma became the forty-sixth state on November 16, 1907, but its story began long before there...