Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Spoiler alert:  Irish hometowns not discovered (yet). I am trying to discover where in Ireland Patrick Joyce (1830-1905) and Margaret Cam...

When you cannot locate someone in an index, try searching with only a first name or view every name in the entire location.  Depending on th...

One of the family stories of my maternal grandmother was that her grandmother, Delia Joyce (1862-1929) , was a baby when her mother threw h...

Another component of a family story mentioned in a newspaper! A few years back, I wrote of a family story :  Delia Joyce's mother'...

An inquiry from Ireland has helped me expand a branch of my Joyce tree. Someone contacted me, trying to discover what had become of a gran...

Sometimes people can't be found at all in the census.  Others have two entries for the same census, called a double enumeration . Adel...

The research trip to Albany, New York lasted three days.  I found a lot of useful information.  I was unable to post because Internet servic...