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The topic for the 47th Carnival of Genealogy is: A Place Called Home . It's time for a geography lesson. Pick out a city/town/vil...

When I was first inspired to start genealogy/family history blogging in August 2006 (thanks to footnoteMaven and our hobnobbing across ...

There are as many reasons as stars in the sky for a person to dive into family history research, or for a writer to be compelled to express ...

Thanks to Thomas MacEntee at Destination: Austin Family for calling this Yahoo News story to my attention: " 100-year mystery: did Ind...

In the last Carnival of Genealogy challenge, we were asked to describe what traits we inherited from our ancestors. I tried to be respectfu...

An article in today's Aftenposten reveals discoveries made by DNA samples and x-rays taken from the bodies of two women buried in 834 ...

After Ole Martin Johnson married Malla Larson in 1886, my great grandmother began to diligently record the birth of her children inside the...

The subtitle could very well be: Pardon my Humility I've mentioned "humility" and "modesty" in this blog before, in ...

I haven't started a meme yet, but I'm going to... right now! Many times I have pondered on some of the scariest things I encountered...

The topic for the 46th edition of Carnival of Genealogy is: What traits run in your family? Which of them did you inherit? Do you have your...

It was a daily certainty that early immigrant settlers in the Upper Midwest encountered challenge and hard work. Women were expected to not ...

Lena Marie Winje, 1897 Lena Marie Winje was a child of the Minnesota prairie, born on her parents' homestead in Granite Falls Towns...

Serendipitous for my daughter, anyway... Courtney just sent this photo to me via her cellphone. It seems she was taking a stroll in Ballard ...

A few years ago, a relative gave me access to a photograph album of cabinet cards belonging to my great grandparents, Ole M. and Malla Johns...

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, then is there really a sound? So, if I "don't have an accent,"...

"Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food tha...

"The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women." - Pearl Buck, author ...

A Tribute to Esther Agnes (Berge) Johnson Written for the Carnival of Genealogy . . . In keeping with the month of March being Nationa...