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Railroad Maps The local railroad may have played important roles in your ancestors’ lives. It may have been their ticket to a runaway marriage, the migration path to their new homestead property, or it may have been even more...

Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in 1954 and several days later Diane Leather broke the 5 minute mile for women. Huge accomplishments, but how are those times germane to genealogical research? Chances are, you can walk a...

Mara (Seirp) Breitenstein had an album with this photograph of her husband, John Louis Breitenstein as a little boy. It is one of many pictures taken on the farmhouse porch. John is the little boy on the horse.  Mara...

More than forty-five years ago, my grandmother sent my mom a page from the Citizen Tribune, 28 March 1967, page 3. It was a story about her great-aunts teaching preschool, which was kindergarten for some, in Morristown, Hamblen Co.,...

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.