If you have a bunch of old McCracken-Ellis family photos and you don’t have a clue who half the people are, take them to the...

Gaining statehood in 1861, Kansas was the 34th state admitted to the Union.  Six years earlier Bourbon County had been formed as a part of...

This story started as a tribute to a boy, who the McCracken family has placed flowers on his grave for decades despite not being related...

  Old obituaries intrigue me.  Some are extremely blunt while others are written with such flair that you do not see in obituaries today.  The...

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...