Family History Research by Jody Lutter

Reuben Levy Bishop (1805-1856) was my fourth great grandfather. He died in Morris County, New Jersey. I have not uncovered his parents yet....

Below is the list of records not available online that were ordered and not yet fulfilled. More items were ordered since the  last published...

When I can't find discover someone's parents in my family tree, I call this a "tail."  Someone gave me this term to use in...

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

The Wallings of Monmouth County, New Jersey are an interwoven bunch that I am trying to sort.  Of particular interest at this point is provi...

Family Search has just offered New Jersey probate records- over 3 million images.  Dates range from the late 1600s through the 1900s.  I am...

I continue to be amazed by the growing collection of original records over at Family Search .  Original and indexed probate records for will...

If your research leads you to suspect a divorce, look for the divorce record.  Herman Lutter and Clara Uhl were married in Newark, New Jerse...

Fannie Duryea and Abraham Lent Brewer were married in the 1840s and had no known children.  They lived in New York City and then Rockland Co...

Louise and Charles Lutter were parents of five known children- all daughters.  This could spell disaster for tracing this family, as women o...

A small newspaper blip about the will of Herman Lutter led me to find his actual will, filed in Monmouth County, at the Archives in Trenton...