April 11, 2025 Church records often contain information found nowhere else. Births, marriages and death dates are usually found in these records. Church records are also some of the earliest records available for an area. Despite their value, church records (at least for U.S. research) are underutilized. There are a variety of reasons for …
Public or Private
April 4, 2025 Genealogists often debate whether online family trees should be private or public. The choice is personal, and neither is better or worse than the other. However, there are pros and cons to each choice. There are several good reasons to have a public tree. One of the benefits of online trees …
Enos G. Stetser
March 28, 2025 Thirty years ago, when I started doing serious genealogy, I began with my husband’s New Jersey family. Very little research had been done on the Stetser’s at that time. My husband’s family knew little about their roots. One of the first ancestors I discovered was my husband’s second great grandfather, Enos …