Western Massachusetts Families in 1790

The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has started a new project to collect family sketches for each household enumerated in the 1790 census for Western Massachusetts.

Happy Anniversary…

To me and my hubby, Jim! We’ve been married five years today.        

10 Essential Genealogy Books

The Carnival of Genealogy – 56th Edition challenged us to choose our top ten essential books for our genealogical research. Short, sweet, and to-the-point, here’s my list.

Family Heirloom Meme – My Treasures

In a recent post, I stated that I was going to create a disaster plan to figure out what is important for me to save if a disaster were to occur.  I challenged others to do the same and will post their responses in a […]

Family Events – Week of September 8 to September 14

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Carnival of Genealogy, 55th Edition Posted

The Carnival of Genealogy, 55th Edition is now posted at Creative Gene.  This edition contains 50 articles centered around the “show and tell” theme.  Be sure to check it out!

Searching for Events

Our friend, Smallest Leaf over at Small-leaved Shamrock, inquired about how I gathered the information for my new “this week’s family events” posts.  So I thought I’d put together a quick tutorial on how I’m doing it in hopes it can help her and others […]

Living Events

It’s amazing how much information I actually have for many of my relatives.  The problem:  I didn’t know it until a few months ago. I had the obvious sources:  birth/death/marriage certificates, obituaries, memorial/funeral cards, and the like.  And of course I used the sources to […]