Family History Research by Jody Lutter

When you cannot locate someone in an index, try searching with only a first name or view every name in the entire location.  Depending on th...

This family plot of stones caught my eye in Green Grove Cemetery in Keyport, Monmouth County, New Jersey.  The stones had the surname ...

I finally found a marriage record for my 3x great grandparents, Stephen C Duryea (1814-1887) and Mary Ann Evanshirer (1842-1916) !  The rec...

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

Some people have written to me, asking how you know to look for someone twice in the same census year.  The short answer is that you don...

Thank you to Tom and Kathryn Peters for indexing records of the First German Reformed Church in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.  This ch...

Holbrook's City Directory for Newark, New Jersey 1895 Page 674.  Fold3.com Helpful guidance from a century ago: Members of the same...

I have a few German lines that are quite short in my trees- only a few generations- because tracing ancestors back in Europe can be difficul...

Here's a quote from Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne for all those who claim that your last name was never different.

After locating the Alien File for my immigrant of concern, Joseph Regenye, I next turned to locate him in the United States Federal Census....

Tracking the Zolders is requires recognizing them in different forms.  A few of them arrived in the United States in the 1880s from Hungary,...