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I recently came across my grandmother’s file of papers from my parents’ wedding. The costs of the cakes, reception food and drink, and dress were all in this file along with the lists of presents received at the shower...

If research subjects are not findable under their own names, try their alternates, initials, nicknames, pseudonyms, nom de plume, pen name, alias, nom de guerre, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) name, or performance name. (Two examples of performance names are...

I am in the midst of proofreading The Descendants of Jacob and Margaret Gerber Breitenstein of Louisville. As a break, because proofreading is very hard work, I came across a photograph of the family of their seventh son, Michael...

My dad’s cousin, Dave, sent me some photographs in 1991 of various parts of the T. L. Henritze family, his first four sons, some of his in-laws and a Christmas shot taken in 1906 in Welch, West Va.

Family stories,  amazing or amusing? My maternal grandmother passed away in 2000. Amongst a box of her papers, I found a fifty-year-old uncancelled check. On the face of it, no big mystery, a little absurd perhaps to have a...

Finding an old labeled snapshot is so rewarding, because there are hundreds of unlabed specimens in drawers, boxes and albums everywhere.

Like many families, we have studio photographs, snapshots, and now digital photographs galore. Way too many of them are not labeled. However, those that are known might be able to help someone else identify someone or something. Keep Trying to...