Be You Blithe and Bonny

I wrote once before on the subject of our slave-owning ancestor James Whittington of Johnston and Wake Counties, North Carolina, and Madiso...

Mirinda Piper married John Andrews on September 21, 1858 in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois. Her father was Beverly Bradley Piper and her...

Betsey DeKalb, a distant cousin of mine who lived two hundred years ago, used to regale her nieces and nephews with this story about her gr...

My great-grandfather Ernest John Andrews was, as he put it, bitten by the genealogical bug in the late 1890s when he was in his 30s. He spe...