Cassatt Recordings

  With so much of my family history rooted in farms across the country, it’s hard to find many city stories. My mother’s family once lived i...

  Fire has long been an essential part of human existence—used for cooking, clearing brush for planting, warmth, and metallurgy, among other...

  So far, this blog has focused largely on ancestors who came to the thirteen colonies or early United States from northwest Europe—Great B...

  For a genealogist, cemeteries are like gold mines—so much information literally carved in stone. Of course, mistakes can happen, and tombs...

  It is not uncommon in family research to find relatives who seem to have dropped out of the records under mysterious circumstances. Yet, w...

  This week’s prompt was “Animals,” and for so many of my farming ancestors, that meant livestock. But where to begin? With so many ancesto...

  I can’t say that my ancestors were the type to make national headlines—those were more likely the provenance of some more distant relative...