Family History Research by Jody Lutter

New York City is seeking to limit public availability of birth and death records to 125 and 75 years after the event, respectively, accordin...

In researching the Bishops of Burlington County, New Jersey, I came across a marriage for William R Bishop in 1860 to Mary Lee at the State...

Last week I attended a tour of the Morristown and Morris Township Library’s North Jersey History and Genealogy Center , organized by the Mo...

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....

The Preston family had many misfortunes and many family stories about these tragedies told through the years.  In addition to deaths by trai...

If you had Catholic family living in Hudson County, New Jersey, or even New York City, in the late 1800s through the 1900s, you need to che...

A recent study finds that Americans are more likely to die on Christmas Day, December 25th, than any other day of the year.  (You can read a...

I am still trying to track the Kittson family mentioned in the will of Herman Lutter, probated in 1924 and mentioned in a previous post . ...

Michael Preston was the grandson of Irish immigrants, Michael Preston and his wife, Catherine Donnell, who arrived in Dutchess County, New ...

Mary Drake was last seen in the 1920 census in Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey.  Her husband, John, was a widower in the 1930 census in M...

I previously wrote about discovering a connection between John Frazee to the Duryea line.  The actual link is John Frazee's second wife,...

Until recent times, deaths of young people, including babies, was not uncommon.  It is very easy to miss several children of a marriage if t...

Bessie Cook appears in the 1910 and 1920 censuses with her father, Charles.  I have no other records for her.  I don't know if she marri...

On Friday I did some research in Morris County, New Jersey on the Cook family.  So far, my tree for these Cooks reaches back to the couple S...

When I first started researching over ten years ago, I searched a lot of microfilm rolls for information.  The film was broken a little bit ...