Last names are a lot of fun - but sometimes they aren't super easy to track. Then again, it's also a lot easier to track family history when you've got a family surname to help you make sure you've...
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While dating my now-husband, it made me laugh when people asked him if he was related to famous people with his same last name. Now that we're married, though, I'm getting that same question about...
Thanks to statistics and how history played out, the odds are that your family hasn't been in America for more than a few hundred years at most. This means that, at some point, someone in your...
America is a land of opportunity and immigrants. So when you're trying to find more about your family, it can help to discover when your family became a US citizen. So, when did my grandfather...
As I do my genealogy, things get crazy fast when you're from a yours-mine-and-ours type of family. Especially when you've got two brothers (one from another mother) with the same first name. The...
Roman history is full, rich, and deeply nuanced. It's fun to imagine what it would be like back then - and it's intriguing to wonder what your ancestors did back then. Were they part of the vast...
