August 29, 2025 With summer winding down, I’m ready to visit ancestral cemeteries. Fall is the perfect season to tramp through graveyards. The weather is cooler, but it’s still pleasant. The bugs are fewer, and there’s little chance of snow covering the headstones you want to see. Over the last few years, websites such …
University Libraries
August 15, 2025 This week I took a tour of the Coe Library at the University of Wyoming with the Albany County Genealogical Society. The tour focused on the library’s resources for genealogists. Highlights included the Chisum Special collections and an overview of the university’s huge digital newspaper collection. Anyone who has ancestors in …
Lots of Cousins
August 8, 2025 I’ve always known there were lots of cousins on my Fernelius side of the family. As it turns out, I don’t have a huge number of first cousins on this side – only seven. However, when I researched an earlier generation the number of cousins exploded. My dad was one of …