Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Find A Grave is a wonderful and free site of burials.  You can look up a person of interest and you can create and contribute death and bur...

I finally tracked down the death certificate of Charles Cook , my great great grandfather.  He was a resident of Newark, Essex County, New J...

Abraham Lent Brewer was born in 1826 in Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York, to James Brewer and Mary Lent.  His sister, Rene Brewer, w...

If you cannot find a marriage return filed with the State, this article from 1897 could explain why.  It seems that Father O'Connor of H...

Patrick Frances O'Donnell was born around 1856 in Ireland.  In the 1900 United States federal census, he is living with his wife, Delia ...

Recent additions to the website of the Latter-Day Saints include an index to New Jersey marriages from 1678 through 1985.  The site is free...

In the 1860 census in Newark, Susan Bishop is residing with the Ward family. Roll M653_689; page 326; lines 33-39; enumerated June 28, 1...

Findagrave.com is a great website for locating burial places of relatives and viewing their gravestones.  I have placed the burial informat...

One of the things I do not understand are people who post bunches names, some with dates, some with locations, with absolutely no references...