Purpose

There are two purposes for this blog. The most important purpose is to share information with family. A secondary purpose it to share methods of conducting research. I do not have a subscription to any pay ancestry websites. When I first began my ancestry research nine years ago, I did have a pay subscription for some time, however; now I would find it unnecessary. So, in between interesting family stories, you will also learn how to do your own research. Websites that strive to provide free ancestry information will be featured, as well as local resources that are right under your nose, and I might even teach you some "historian tricks" to locate hard-to-find information.