Life From The Roots

Today was an unhappy day; it began with my knowing I was going to go to a wake. Not just any wake, but to one of a former genealogy club m...

An update to my question regarding converting a PDF to a Jpeg brought many responses and many different methods.  See post of March 1 . I ...

DAR Certificate of 1914 belonging to my great-grandmother. I don't have many items that belonged to my great-grandmother but the three t...

The Knap line was one of the lines that I had a very easy time tracing their migration. Since I worked backwards and was initially stuck on ...

President Ronald Reagan and Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillippines on the White House lawn. President Ronald Reagan meets with Prime Min...

The two current (for March) magazines shown above have articles that might be of interest to some readers. As a lover of magazines, I often...

South End Burying Ground, Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut Sarah Norton Newell Born:  April 01, 1689, Southington, Hartford Co., Con...

I have so many difficulties when it comes to computer related issues. Nothing has been easy. The computer is ok, it is doing the little fun ...

Valentine's Day came and went, as did the figure skating at the Olympics, and soon life will be back to normal.  Genealogy research, blo...

For Saturday, February 27, 2010, Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun  pertains to the contest Ancestry.com is offering everybody...