Category Archives: GenBlog

It’s my understanding that a guardian is a person appointed to act on behalf of a minor child (or incompetent adult) during the probate process.  My questions revolve around minors who have lost both parents, and what happens to them.  Let me set the stage…

The topic for the upcoming edition of the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival is Scavenger Hunt. Like a traditional scavenger hunt, the object is to find as many items as you can from the list below. In our case, those “items” are to be found in the […]

I am writing this post in response to a query about an unidentified piece of material that Michelle Goodrum found.  You can read her post, Sorting Saturday-Time Capsule-Help! Do You Know What This Is?, for more information and a photo of the object.

My mom gave her dad this card on Father’s Day.  Given the handwriting, she was probably pretty young.

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.

There is a series of books, The Public Record of the Colony [State] of Connecticut.  These books contain transcriptions of various public records.  Many of the volumes can be found as digital files online; a listing is included at the end of this post.  Following […]

I found this business card among my family papers.  My mom thought her mom had acquired it somewhere along the line, but….

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.