Family History Research by Jody Lutter

March 18 is the birthday of my paternal grandfather, Clifford Lutter (1915-1980) . He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1915. He was...

March 18 is the birthday of my paternal grandfather, Clifford Lutter (1915-1980) . Birth certificate of Clifford Lutter. March 18, 1915 in P...

Thanks to J Paul Hawthorne at Geneaspy for this idea of a family tree focused on places of birth. At a glance, you can visuali...

A Brady cousin has been found!  She came forward after discovering the match through DNA and then checking family trees.   H.M. and R.S. a...

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...

New Jersey has an interesting collection of Delayed Births 1848-1900 at the Archives .  Because everyone did not record a birth with the loc...

Birth announcements in old newspapers are rare.  I find far more marriage and death notices than birth. This "young" baby is p...

Last week I wrote of my visit to the National Archives in New York City and the instruction I received on Alien Files .  I located an indi...

Yesterday I visited the National Archives in New York City at 201 Varick Street.   (They plan to relocate this year.)   The tour was sponso...

I had a poor copy of a marriage return from New Jersey for Newark in 1888.  Viewing the microfilm at the Archives in Trenton was no better....

I visited the Catskill Village Cemetery yesterday in Catskill, Greene County, New York. For years, I have been searching for the parentage ...