This is a Very Long Story, one I haven't blogged about because I genuinely thought it would make a better book. I still plan to write th...

Dear Birth Mom, You don't know me. We met exactly once, on the day that I was born, but by then, you'd been in labor for, like, fort...

My maternal grandparents, Jose Junius Ramos and Elsie Marie Sorenson, are two of my heroes. They met in 1950 at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake ...

April has been a slow month around here, so here are a few things to keep on your radar: --I interviewed Ryan Gebhart on the Fearless Fift...

I recently found a brand new family on my family tree, and since several people have expressed interest in learning how to do this kind of r...

I started this post last weekend, but the words weren't coming out as smoothly as I wanted them to. Like a lot of bloggers, I don't ...

When I asked people to shoot me their genealogy-related questions on Twitter last Tuesday, the ever astute  Elizabeth Briggs suggested I bl...

"Monster" Chittick's on the left Or “How Monster Got His Name” I got into genealogy about six months ago, not long after...