Adoption Records and Strategies for Finding Birth Family
If the thought of presidential blood running through your veins brings out excitement, sit down: 100 million Americans have family ties to at least one of America’s 43 presidents. According to Gary Boyd Roberts’...
Q. How can one locate records on indentured servants? Unfortunately, I do not know the name of the ship in which John and William Nolan boarded to sell boiled eggs from Ireland to somewhere...
How Can I Locate my Revolutionary War Ancestor Before 1790 Census (Q) mes Q: Am I the Only One Struggling to Get Past 1790 Federal Census (Routinely?) I’ve reached an impasse with finding Walter...
Though only 102 passengers boarded the Mayflower for Plymouth Rock in 1620, according to estimates by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, it’s estimated that millions of people worldwide can trace their roots back...
1820 was an important year for genealogists – that’s when the US government started mandating that ships captains keep passenger lists. If your ancestors arrived before then, does that signal an end to genealogical...
My childish nature shows when someone brags that she’s a Mayflower descendant; my nose lifts slightly when I respond: “My ancestor arrived 13 years earlier – 1607 to Jamestowne Society!” Maybe it’s because I...
In 1692, in Salem (now Danvers), Massachusetts, 19 individuals were tried and executed for witchcraft, sparking widespread panic among Puritans living throughout New England. Although only 19 people were officially accused in Salem Village...
Q. My great-grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Teter, from Memphis in Scotland County Missouri, arrived west on a wagon train after 1892. Unfortunately there is no comprehensive list of wagon trains with names of passengers...
Did you know that various genealogy societies provide “pioneer certificates” to descendants of people whose ancestors first settled in an area before a specific date? For instance, Utah Genealogical Society offers Founding Pioneer, Territorial...
1773 Boston residents protest the Tea Act by dumping tons of tea into Boston Harbor as a form of protest 1774 British Parliament passes the “Intolerable Acts” First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia The...
Q. Reading immigration records often leaves me disheartened because my ancestors came over prior to 1790. After searching all available books at my library and consulting all family trees with last names matching, none...
