Family History Research by Jody Lutter

A wedding invitation from 1882 appeared on eBay . This family heirloom was offered at $150. Nobody purchased the item. Picture of wedding in...

A wonderful thing happened for genealogy in New Jersey. Reclaim the Records has secured indexes for deaths 1904 through 2017, with quite...

This is not another ordinary request for a vital record in New Jersey. This envelope contains a request for a copy of a birth certific...

Indexes for New Jersey records are online for the early 1900s! A year ago I wrote about the efforts of Reclaim the Records to obtain cop...

New Jersey indexes of vital records from the early 1900s will be coming online. This is great news from a group called Reclaim the Records...

Inspired by a genealogical blog post , I crafted some ancestor maps of my own.  Using the ancestors of my father, I created two maps :  1- P...