Life From The Roots

My mother only cried once in front of me. It was like yesterday. She had just heard a radio report, similar to the statement from the site...

Yesterday, in Keeping Track - Part 1 , I explained one method used to keep track of my surnames and where they were living during their bi...

Not all genealogy buffs use genealogy software. That has become rather apparent to me this past week. For example, one friend of over 35 yea...

William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton President Clinton going back to the White House after a jog.  It was a warm but very cloud...

Two generations of my direct lines of VAN WOERTs are buried at Plains Cemetery, Oneonta, Otsego Co., New York.  They were my 4th and 5th gr...

Boott Mills, Lowell When my friend Joyce wrote me the other day, to see if I could check out a surname from whatever sources I could, I thou...

When Bill West of West in New England wrote, The Case of Mary Gates  of Lancaster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, I immediately went to m...