With the holiday season in full-swing, I thought it would be fun to use various holiday words and phrases and see if I could find people in historical records that carried these words and phrases as actual names. Here are a few that I found:
1. Mary Christmas
There are many instances of this name appearing, but [...]

One overlooked genealogical treasure when researching modern ancestors is modern day pension benefits. Recently, I was put in a position to place my mother, who had lived with me many years, in an assisted living facility. My husband had sustained an injury that needed my additional care and attention.
As I went about arranging my mother’s situation, [...]

Polish Marriage Records Online
Kyle J. Betit
Finding an ancestor’s home village or town in Poland can be a difficult job – especially because there are few large databases of Polish records to check online. Recently, however, some marriage databases have become available that are impressive and a good start on indexing Polish marriages online. Beware that [...]

Several years ago, the small company I was working for purchased various items for our move into a new office building. We spent a day getting our files organized, our favorite colors of sticky notes arranged on our desks, and building smaller pieces of office furniture we needed to make the office functional and efficient.
My [...]

A great new resource has recently become available for those of us with London ancestors. London is pretty much one of the most difficult places to research in England. This is particularly true for those whose only access to London records is the Internet. Well, at long last, there now exists a substantial database for [...]

I recently came across the following item which may be of interest to anyone currently pursuing their English heritage. Glance over the following two documents and note the discrepancy in the marriage data for Thomas Bracegirdle and Jane Hatton. The first is a civil copy of the marriage, dated 1843, while the second is the [...]

I attended the wedding reception of the daughter of some friends recently.  The bride was beautiful and just being at the reception brought back memories of my own children and their weddings.  My daughters were so happy and beautiful on their wedding days.  My nostalgic memories were interrupted when my friend, the bride’s mother, said [...]

Genealogists are on the constant search for more and more data online, but sometimes we don’t even realize what’s right under our noses. As Amanda pointed out in her blog entry last week, we don’t always know as much about the online sources as we thought we did. Well, do you know where to find [...]

I updated our U.S. Genealogy Sleuth pages today! Wow, there are so many new resources being brought online regularly. This week saw the presentation of New Mexico Death Records 1889-1945, Massachusetts Death Records 1841-1915, Delaware State Birth Records 1861-1908 and Rhode Island State Census Records for 1915.
The Genealogy Sleuth is a page that we use [...]