Family History Research by Jody Lutter

The day after I wrote about an AncestryDNA Circle for the wrong ancestor , Mary Evenshirer, another descendant of hers appeared in my matche...

Finally I am placed in an Ancestry.com DNA Circle . The common ancestor surprised me:  Mary Evenshirer.   Nobody else has this surn...

A new DNA match appeared for me at Ancestry.com .  I am no fan of Ancestry.com's DNA services because there is no chromosome browser .  ...

A Duryea cousin has been found through DNA testing!  "C J" and I are fourth cousins.  Our common ancestors were our third great gr...

My aunt gave me some pictures taken in a cemetery, probably in the late 1960s.  I recognized the setting as Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleep...

I finally found a marriage record for my 3x great grandparents, Stephen C Duryea (1814-1887) and Mary Ann Evanshirer (1842-1916) !  The rec...

Mary Evenshirer was my 3x great grandmother.  She was born in New York City around 1842.  She died in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jerse...