How often is it that a train coming through town is a reason for a family reunion?  That was the case for the Thomson family....

Charles F.Peelle, a businessman and a fourth cousin to my great-grandfather William Johnson Peelle, got involved with the local safety gate company.  When the owner...

by L. L. Thomson   Many people over the years have spent their later days in a retirement home.  However, few have lived in a...

DNA and associated analysis tells us a lot about our ancestry.  It is a relatively new field, but I can no longer imagine doing genealogy...

My great-great grandmother Louisiana has been a bit tricky to search.  It would have been much easier if there hadn’t been so many mistakes both...

Doing genealogy has lots of challenges regarding reading and understanding documents from the past.  I have encountered documents in a variety of languages.  However, sometimes...

Each person likely has some local, national, or worldwide historical event that they would say had a big influence on their life.  For many of...

When your name is Mary Inga Anderson and you live in Sweden, you are about as easy to find as Mary Ann Jones in America. ...

       Some years ago, Dad told me a story and then told me not to tell people.  Well, now that all of the older generation...

Having joined the Society of Friends, Francis Pellett, like many other Quakers, decided to go to America where religious freedom was said to exist.  When...