I get great joy out of uniting families in my genealogical research.  The trail of research is sometimes unbelievable in the way that things come together.  I’m going to give you a brief run down of recent research I did that connected two half-sisters.  They didn’t even  know the other one existed before this.  One […]

Persistence does pay off in finding a “lost” relative. Unless there are just no records whatsoever, you can always find a family member.     The recent and happy story goes like this (real names not given):

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Lucy Duglus/Duglass and Janie Cresswell Lamar   Photo, taken around 1851, with the writing on back of it

She was born in 1955.  When her mother and father left the hospital after her delivery, they went home without her.  She had been given up for adoption. On the other side of town, a childless couple had been waiting for three years for a little girl.  At long last, here was a precious baby […]

I was asked by a client to find out whatever happened to a cousin of his named Bud, who he had been very fond of.  No one had seen or heard of Bud since about 1940.  That sure perked up the ole ancestry detective in me, so I got to work. While doing my research, […]