Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Ship records of passengers can be informative, possibly revealing places of origin, occupations, and relations in the originating country as...

Brick wall down!  The parents of Mary Neil, my 3rd great grandmother, have been discovered. Five generations of my father's family t...

Sometimes people can't be found at all in the census.  Others have two entries for the same census, called a double enumeration . Adel...

Louise and Charles Lutter were parents of five known children- all daughters.  This could spell disaster for tracing this family, as women o...

In researching the connection between the Place and Duryea families, I am reminded of two things to always pay attention to:  the business p...