Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Genealogy rule: make digital copies of all records , mementos, pictures, letters. (And make backup copies .) The death certificate for my re...

In the Rockaway Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery is the gravestone for: Peter Vanderhoof (1844-1913) Betsey M his wife (1846-1902)  [...

My fourth great grandfather, Reuben Levy Bishop (1805-1856) remains a tail end in my tree . I explored possible connections to other Bishop...

Some people have no death certificate. Henry Hennion received two death certificates when he died in 1884 in Montville, Morris County, New J...

Below is the list of records not available online that were ordered and not yet fulfilled. The  last published list  was November 4, 2025. D...

I found another death certificate filed in two states. The difference from the prior finding is that the death occurred in North Carolina i...

Sometimes an out-of-state death record is filed in New Jersey. I have seen this most often with military-related deaths. Edwin Jayne Duryea ...

Sometimes two people share similar facts, causing confusion to later generations who try to sort through records to craft accurate family tr...

In 1926, Frank Vanderhoof , age twenty, died from injuries sustained at this place of work. He was employed by the Pequanoc Soft Rubber Comp...

How do you properly record a county when the location and the information on the record do not align? I am not sure. When reviewing the deat...

In the previous article , I mentioned that I was unsure about the life of Jacob Vanderhoof, born about 1843 to Elizabeth Cook (1803-1882) an...