Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Over the years I’ve written about the difficulties in obtaining copies of vital records from the State of New York . The only way to receive...

Samuel Schwartz and Hani "Annie" Perlstein settled in Jersey City, New Jersey after their arrival from Hungary in the 1880s. I w...

The State of New York is years behind in fulfilling orders for genealogical copies of vital records. Years . This is a problem because the o...

While figuring out the connection with a DNA match, I came across two marriage records for a couple. On September 12, 1942, Joseph De Figlio...

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

In my research, finding two marriage ceremonies for the same couple is no longer unusual. I think this is thanks to indexes becoming more re...

Another couple had two marriage ceremonies . Louis Kossuth Goldberger (1887-1971) and Celia Schlesinger (1887-1962) were married in New Jers...

Indexes for New Jersey records are online for the early 1900s! A year ago I wrote about the efforts of Reclaim the Records to obtain cop...

When you cannot locate someone in an index, try searching with only a first name or view every name in the entire location.  Depending on th...

John R Winterton was born around 1831 to Samuel Winterton and Sally Ann Johnson in New York City and died February 18, 1890 in Keyport, Monm...

Here's another one about finding the original record and not relying on an index. The surnames DWYER and DURYEA look very similar in s...