Family History Research by Jody Lutter

The United States federal census provides a framework for tracing families every ten years (except the mostly destroyed 1890). Later census ...

I found another death certificate filed in two states. The difference from the prior finding is that the death occurred in North Carolina i...

Sometimes an out-of-state death record is filed in New Jersey. I have seen this most often with military-related deaths. Edwin Jayne Duryea ...

A pocket watch of Peter S Duryee is up for auction on eBay . The item is located in Australia, far from its origins. EBay listing for pocke...

In a prior article, we reviewed the 1877 birth record of a male child, not named, which was in error for a female child named Lucy Lutter . ...

Older New York City births, marriages, and deaths  with images  are on Ancestry  (" New York, New York, U.S., Vital Records, Births 184...