Family History Research by Jody Lutter

We have another conflicting date on a gravestone in Rockaway Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery in Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey...

An admission ticket to a graduation ceremony was among family pictures I received recently. The small red stub was for entrance to the comme...

The prior article mentioned two Cook brothers, Stephen and William, born around 1800 in Morris County, New Jersey. Their parents were Henry...

I was excited to find this family tree with additional details about my fourth great grandmother, Elizabeth Vanderhoof (1799-1878) . Then I ...

My great-grandfather, Eugene Everett Cook (1898-1979) , was born and raised in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. He moved around within New ...

A marriage record is an excellent way of discovering the names of the parents of the bride and groom. The parties helped create the document...

On this day in my family's history, my great grandparents, Eugene Everett Cook (1898-1979) and Rene Marion Duryea (1900-1943) , married...

This is wonderful news. New Jersey's earliest state-level vital records are online at Ancestry ! The covered years are 1848-1878. There ...