Life From The Roots

I chose the Fitch name (with Connecticut roots) today because I know another blogger shares the same surname, and I hope others do to. Two g...

If somebody had asked me which of the two, Facebook or Google, was getting the most hits per week, I would have said Google without a doubt....

The Burial Ground Hill Cemetery is now known as The Oak Hill Cemetery located at Southington, Connecticut Samuel Newell (above) Born:  Febru...

If you live in certain areas of the East Coast, you know that it has been a very rainy, windy and cold weekend. A perfect time to spend the ...

Nathaniel Foote and his family establish a very old line in Connecticut.  He was born September 21, 1592 in Shalford, Colchester, Essex Co.,...

March is National Women's History Month and a genealogist has come up with the topic "Did you have any female ancestors who died ...

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 ...