Genealogy is appealing to me because it is a challenge.  I love the detective work of piecing together a person’s life from only the crumbs of information they’ve left behind.  

There are cases where you immediately find everything to you need to paint a picture of...

“First” is a very common theme in genealogical research.  Genealogists are tasked with looking for the first ancestors of each family branch, identifying first settlers in the first towns in a new country, their first wives, their firstborns and all of the first storie...

Houses are the epicenter of a family’s history.  “House History” is gaining momentum within the genealogical world as people want to dive into the history of the home they live in. Who built it? Who lived in it? What happened here?  From historical importance to morbid...

A Memory

by Ella Reynolds Littell

A memory sweet from my long lost youth

    Comes back with the roses of June.

Of an old-fashioned garden I loved when a child

    When the robin's were singing in tune.

There grew roses and pinks and blue columbines,

    Tall lilies...