Answering The Ancestors' Call

Image courtesy of www.blackpast.org A few weeks ago I received from the National Archives the Civil War pension file I had requested for...

Have you ever felt a strong affinity for a culture or nation, and then discovered a possible genetic link?   One of my DNA cousins, Maurice...

Dig deeper in my research.  It's time to delve into the realities beyond the infamous 1870 divide in African American genealogy.  Who ...

When I started this blog, it was specifically to explore my paternal ancestry.  To answer the many questions I have about my father'...

The presents have been cleared away, the holiday meal and movie enjoyed, and now in the last hours of Christmas day I am coming t...

I got a kick out of the post, Everybody cousin , on the Gardener’s Footprint blog, because it described something I believe is true—anywhe...

Charles H. Gamble military record from Fold3.com J ust a week ago, I wrote my first true genealogy post for this blog, a discussion of t...