Life From The Roots

Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut Richard Lord Born:  May 16, 1647, Saybrook, Middlesex Co., Connecticut Died: Apr...

If I hadn't canceled my trip to Salt Lake City (SLC) for the week of National Genealogical Society  NGS lectures and Family History L...

More people write me pertaining to the surname of BOCKUS than any other surname. Although 324 Bockus names in my database is a fair amount, ...

Last fall, I wrote about meeting with Dr. Sykes and shared that meeting with you in a piece called Kathryn Hepburn and My DNA . Just the oth...

Genealogy and Google just seem to go together, then throw in any information about computers.  Now you have three topics that make for an ...

In the past several days, I've mentioned Joseph Seccomb twice.  First in his genealogy and then yesterday with parts of his diary .  No...

Today is a state holiday and the state offices, many schools and businesses are closed. But it is far from boring in Boston. Today was t...

My 5th great grandfather, Joseph Seccombe , made entries in his "Text Book" and they can be seen in the publication, directly belo...

When I began my 4th fourth grade at the Adams School in Lexington, Massachusetts, I knew nothing of my new town's history. My parent...

The Seccomb line is another old Massachusestts line.  My direct lines are in green.  As with many names, this one has been spelled Secomb, ...