One of my favorite things about being a genealogist is knowing how to find information. I’ve found that because of the variety of research tasks our clients present to us, I have learned how to find a lot more than just genealogical information. I don’t watch much TV, but one show that I have caught [...]

I hope Carl Sandburg won’t mind too much if I adapt his words: “Time is the coin of your genealogy. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
One thing I have learned as a Case [...]

One Sunday afternoon a hungry husband wandered into a busy kitchen where his wife was preparing their traditional Sunday meal of roast and potatoes. As he peered over her shoulder, he noticed that she had cut off 1 ½ inches of beef on each side of the roast. He sat with amazement as she took [...]

I was recently looking for a death entry in an online index to Michigan deaths. Multiple searches in the county did not reveal a single entry of interest. Digging a little deeper into the index showed that there were actually no entries for that particular county for the years of interest in that database. Although [...]