Worldwide Genealogy ~ A Genealogical Collaboration

How do I identify missing siblings? I am sure that by now most of you will be aware of the new indexes made available just over a week...

We live in a different world today. How many of us try to picture what life would have been like for our ancestors. But will an...

  Like most of you, I have women in my family tree who had to live through the loss of one or more of their children.   My paternal Grandmo...

There’s been a lot of interest lately in a study looking at wealthy families in England , which shows that people with ‘posh’ surnames a...

Today,  Protestants from all over the world celebrate Reformation Day. It was on October 31, in the year 1517, when Martin Luther nailed h...

Laughing fool, c 1500 (via Wikimedia) This April, I've been fooled by a name. I've started researching my father's grand...

 I wrote in last month's  post that  Who, What, When, Where and Why  will guide me in this and subsequent posts for my contributions ...

We as family historians and genealogists, spend hours, weeks, months and years researching our ancestral & collateral lines.  We look f...

For this month I am swapping days with Julie Goucher so here is the post for February 1. Pondering on what to post next on this blog I th...