Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Beware of blindly accepting published family trees! Jacob Vanderhoof (1772-1847) and Ann Hopler (1772-1841)  lived and died in Morris Coun...

Obituaries are an invaluable source of information on people from long ago. Sometimes, unfortunately, a person's full name is not reveal...

A marriage record is an excellent way of discovering the names of the parents of the bride and groom. The parties helped create the document...

In the name of God Amen. I, Conrad Hopler, of the Township of Pequanack, in the County of Morris, and State of New Jersey, being sound of ...

Two interesting DNA matches appeared at 23andMe on my father's side. They are close cousins to each other.  Each shares one to four sm...

It took a while, but I finally created a McGuire Method DNA Chart for a branch of my family. Several descendants of my fourth great grand...

A connection was solved with a DNA cousin at 23andMe. This match stood out because the shared DNA was 1.57% over a single segment.  This p...

At FamilyTreeDNA , my uncles share a segment on chromosome 1 with two individuals. We need to know if these two DNA cousins match each ...

The next DNA cousins from Morris County, New Jersey appeared among my matches at AncestryDNA.  By comparing our attached family trees, Ances...

From my Morris County, New Jersey ancestors, some cousins appear in the DNA databases. My father's third cousin from this branch ha...