Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Google Maps provides you with the ability to create your own maps.  I am finding this function useful for genealogy. Google Maps Morris...

The research trip to Albany, New York lasted three days.  I found a lot of useful information.  I was unable to post because Internet servic...

This trip to Albany could not have come at a better time. Hurricane Sandy ravaged my hometown .  Combined with the full moon, rivers flood...

I received this fortune inside a cookie just when the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society announced its trip to the New York...

As you research your ancestors, you will uncover more and more locations where they lived.  You will probably want to visit these locations....

For years, I had searched for the date and location of death of Rene Marion Duryea, wife of Eugene Cook.   They were living in Caldwell, Ess...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Daughters of the American Revolution Library in Washington, D.C.  The building is beautiful an...

I visited the Catskill Village Cemetery yesterday in Catskill, Greene County, New York. For years, I have been searching for the parentage ...

Following up on my excursion to Pound Ridge, New York, I ordered the book, “Images of America, Pound Ridge” by Richard Major and Vincent Man...

Abraham Lent Brewer was born around 1826 and died in 1901.  He was a grandson of Solomon Brewer of Massachusetts, a supposed actor of the Bo...

Stephen C. Duryea died 27 April 1887, according to his gravestone at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York.  I ...