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A sojourn in California
Adrian Sidney Todd (1918-1959) When I contemplated the subject of my first post, I decided that I should write about the person who sparked my genealogical interest in the first place: my paternal...
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Navigating German language records
While searching for online records for Bremen, Germany, I came across a digitized collection of Bremen address books spanning the period 1794–1955 with the help of the website German Roots. The Bremer...
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A dream come true
Colonial Massachusetts records are a family historian’s dream come true. From the beginning, early Bay colonists meticulously tracked the goings on of their communities, leaving records of government...
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Orphan trains
I received a phone call the other day from my parents as they were driving through Kansas on a road trip. They wanted to tell me about a curious roadside advertisement they had seen that they thought...
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Educable children
Medgar Evers appears at the bottom of the page. A couple of weeks ago I was working on an article for The Root, the online magazine, about locating World War I service records for a reader’s...
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Poor relief records
Sheldon Poor House Association, 1860. Click on images to expand them. Vita Brevis readers are likely all too familiar with the problem of brick walls in genealogical research. Many are aware of the...
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