Family History Research by Jody Lutter

My great-grandfather, Eugene Everett Cook (1898-1979) , was born and raised in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. He moved around within New ...

I found these flat markers for Clara Dunlap (1885-1966) and Edgar N Dunlap (1878-1955)  in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Montclair, New Jersey....

A marriage record clarified that Hazel Worth was the same person as Hazel Leonora Penn. This is an example of someone raised by relatives w...

In November of 2017, Pennsylvania began providing adopted persons information from their original, sealed birth certificate. The disappoin...

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...

While collecting vital records for the surname Lutter or Luther in New Jersey, I found this sad record of death. Martin Luther, a baby age...

Ancestry has improved its DNA services by allowing you to see how much DNA you share with a DNA cousin.  To view, go to your list of ma...

I enjoyed reading Orphan Train  by Christina Baker Kline. The book intertwines the stories of two unwanted teenagers- one in the 1920s a...

New close matches appeared at 23andMe for my father and one of his siblings. The person who shares 1.02% over three segments co...

After two years, a close match has appeared at AncestryDNA for M.S. , who is adopted.  This is simply wonderful! AncestryDNA I reache...

AncestryDNA also had a sale on their autosomal DNA testing kits last weekend:  $79 instead of the regular $99.  I purchased two- one for my...

Last year I used the new autosomal DNA testing at Ancestry.com for someone who was adopted.  (Happy Birthday M.S.)  I was eager to compare ...

The results of the AncestryDNA kit are in.  Please bear with me as I try to decipher the results. We received a summation of ethnic ba...

When you have a moment, please go over to the blog The Legal Genealogist and read Judy G Russell's article " Blown away with DNA ....

The AncestryDNA test kit has been utilized.  The donor of the DNA sample was adopted in New Jersey in 1936.  Although the original birth ce...

When you test your autosomal DNA , you reveal bits of your DNA from any one of your ancestors.  Your genetic distant cousins in the data...