Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Letitia, or Lucretia Frances, daughter of Jonas Long and Elizabeth Merrell, was a bit challenging to track. She was born about 1831, probabl...

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

An announcement of a wedding date provided an indirect date of birth of a grandparent. Shirley Adele Hofacker and William John Geerke announ...

Sarah Scherer, her first husband, William Schoenberg, and their seven children were all together in the 1925 New York State Census in Brookl...

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...