Brick walls – every researcher has a couple. They sometimes stand for years, those annoying barriers between you and that elusive ancestor you have been chasing for what seems like forever. Now and then,...
If you assume, as I did, that people of 100 years ago lived much the same lives as you and I do today, you’re in for a big surprise. Age at Marriage. Even though...
Up until the mid 1700s, Scotland, and its culture and customs, was cut off from the rest of the British Isles by a language barrier and by the wall of mountains that is the...
I’m not sure that I like the relatives that I know, so why would I want to find more? Those are my husband’s words, not mine. I, like most family tree historians, thrive on...
I love a good skeleton in the closet. Bring me tales of your scandalous, your salacious and your ne’er do well and I’ll be transfixed. I want to hear all about that bigamist, the...
