Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Where was Walter Joseph Preston buried? Walter was a great granduncle on my mother's side. On August 4, 1899 he was born in Independence...

 Does anyone have information on cemeteries in Millerton, Dutchess County, New York? I continue searching for information on the death of Ca...

November 22, 1890 was the birthdate of my great grandmother, Anna Preston . She was the mother of my maternal grandmother. She died May 10, ...

Today would have been the hundredth birthday of my maternal grandmother, Jeannette. She died in 1993 when I was seventeen years old. Her sto...

New Jersey State Archives has acquired death certificates through 1959. The indexes for 1901 through 2000 can be browsed at a site set up...

Holy Name Cemetery is the final resting place for many of my family. The cemetery, also known as the Hudson County Catholic Cemetery, is in...

Bridget Sheehy (1857-1916) was my great great grandmother. With John D Preston (1857-1928) she had at least ten children born in New Yo...

Another Preston/Sheehy cousin tested his DNA at 23andMe.com . K.J. is the father of D.J., who tested four years ago. D.J. was the first r...

A new DNA cousin appeared among my matches at Ancestry.com. He also matched two known Preston cousins at this site.  He displayed his...

Michael Preston and Ann were my fourth great grandparents.  Their existence is seen only in the death certificate of their son, Michael Pres...

While working on a branch of my Hyser family, I noticed that online family trees had a different year and place of death for Adelaide Hyser ...

In December I tested my  mitochondrial DNA  ("mtDNA") with  FamilyTreeDNA .   My first mtDNA test was over five years ago with Anc...