Family History Research by Jody Lutter

We have another set of potential ONeil cousins . Two people who are second cousins to each other share DNA with my father and his three sibl...

Have relatives of Mary Neil (1830-1898) been identified among the DNA matches at Ancestry? Mary Neil, or Neill, or ONeill, was my great gre...

On May 9, 2026 I visited the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey. It was a rainy day, so the stones we...

A few years ago at 23andMe a close match appeared for my father, his siblings, and their third cousin, Bob, on their shared Cook/Neil line ...

Brick wall down!  The parents of Mary Neil, my 3rd great grandmother, have been discovered. Five generations of my father's family t...

I finally tracked down the death certificate of Charles Cook , my great great grandfather.  He was a resident of Newark, Essex County, New J...

Family Tree Maker 2012 In the family tree above, orange represents the inheritance path shared by my father and his paternal first cou...

After several years, I have located the final resting spot of my great great great grandparents, Calvin Cook and Mary Neil.  Here is the sto...