Family History Research by Jody Lutter

While researching my Duryea roots, this family popped up. John Duryea, born about 1842 in New York (Manhattan), and his wife, Lizzie White. ...

 December 23 was the birthday of my mother, Judith . This year she would have been 70 years old. She died seven years ago. Her genetic myste...

A marriage between step-siblings is not a rare encounter. Below is an explanation with documents on one such marriage. Richard Everet ...

New Jersey has an interesting collection of Delayed Births 1848-1900 at the Archives .  Because everyone did not record a birth with the loc...

Full siblings (same mother and father) will share about 50% of their autosomal DNA . My sister and I thought that we look and act so much...