Often just identifying ancestors back to the 1600s or earlier is a major achievement. Understanding something about the time period and...

After all of the time I spent on my Nantucket Origins post, I hadn't planned to write again so soon about my New England ancestors....

For the month of November I had thought it would be fun to revisit the Puritan origins of my family. But the process of reviewing the...

Let me start by saying I'm not an expert on DNA testing for genealogy. In fact, I've only recently started to get into this new world....