Family History Research by Jody Lutter

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 ...

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...

John ODonnell was a paternal uncle of my grandmother. He resided in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey. From his gravestone, I had his date ...

Edwin Jayne Duryea (1886-1942) died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1942 at the United States Naval Hospital . He served in the ...

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 ...

A family story holds that my mother's uncle "dropped dead" while playing golf.  With the expansion of the collection of death ...

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...