I recently worked with a case where a client wanted to know about his father. He was 85 years old. His parents married when his father was in the service but were divorced shortly after. He never knew his father and wanted to know what happened to him. Through research we were able identify his [...]

Recently when I was doing German parish research at the Family History Library, I heard a woman’s voice with a slight accent thanking someone for their help with someone else’s research problem.  It sounded like they were working to identify the family’s place of origin and they had either eliminated some of the possible locations [...]

When I was in third grade my class learned about legends. We learned that legends are stories that are made up to explain why something is the way it is. I remember that with this assignment, I wrote a story about why calico cats are three colors. I no longer can remember my legend’s explanation [...]