Almost every American family history begins with the story of an immigrant. More than 100 million Americans have ancestors who immigrated through Ellis Island or the previous station, Castle Garden.…
Found on the Old Fulton Postcards website (https://www.fultonhistory.com) is the following article about a new doctor in Niagara Falls. This article was published within the Niagara Falls Gazette on Wednesday,…
This sad story was found in the Buffalo Evening Courier and Republic on 14 February 1873: "Death of a Drinking Man. Last night Joseph Johnson, a man somewhat addicted to…
Connie Knox has a channel on YouTube called Genealogy TV. A video that she published last month is: U.S. Census Maps and Other Unindex[ed] Records on FamilySearch.org. https://youtu.be/1ectqP9Ogys You can…
One of the presentations shared with the 2021 RootsTech Connect virtual conference is: Getting Started: Finding Ancestors and Homelands. This is a video for someone just getting started with genealogy…
Here is a webinar from the BYU Family History Library channel on YouTube on creating Fun, Free Family Tree Charts by Kathryn Grant. This is a great webinar to discover…
In the October 1899 publication of the Lockport High School Crescent, a poem was included written by Irma E. Southworth, class of 1900: Hope Invincible. "She built a beautiful castle…
The following is a 5-minute video that was made for the RootsTech Connect 2021 Conference. Diana Elder shows how to navigate the FamilySearch Catalog and conduct a Place Search. https://youtu.be/oT8E2U0AfzE…
In the blog post "People of Niagara County: Othniel Charles Marsh (Part 1)", I mentioned that I reached out to the Niagara County Historian's Office for more information on Othniel…
The Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)in Nevada invites genealogy speakers to present to their group. Michael Strauss shared the following presentation titled: Manifest Destiny: Researching Your Mexican-American War Ancestors. https://youtu.be/il5-IkPggNA…