New Records on Family Search Website

On 05/31/2020, Family Search sent out the following advice to various individuals, etc. Their website is www.familysearch.org. Over 57 Million New Records “FamilySearch expanded its free online archives in April of 2020 with millions of new indexed family history records from all over the world. FamilySearch is continuously adding new records every month that you […]

Social Distancing Challenges

Because the Covid-19 virus is still affecting our lives, and we practice social distancing, the library is still closed. We work from home as we are able. Some requests for help still come in. To help answer one of these, I reached out to a lady who has donated a copy of her family tree […]

Lynching

Mob violence is probably as old as mankind, but the American name for it is comparatively youthful. Two centuries ago, more or less, Captain William Lynch cut a wide swath through parts of Virginia. As magistrate of a kangaroo court, he heard brief testimony and then sentenced several Pennsylvania County ruffians to hang.

Turning to Online Research

On a wet June morning, Greetings to all genealogical minded. As restrictions imposed on us by Covid-19, doing research is different in that most town offices are or have been closed. The same is true for Libraries and Archives.