How to Search the Social Security Death Index…

Looking for Someone From Your Past?

Are you looking for someone? A former classmate? Old friend? Military buddy? Birth parent? Lost relative? If so, then you’re not alone. Thousands of people head online every day in search of details on missing people. And more and more of these people are...
Types of Marriage Records for Family History

Types of Marriage Records for Family History

Records of Intentions to Marry Marriage Banns — Banns, sometimes spelled bans, were public notice of an intended marriage between two specified persons on a particular date. Banns began as a church custom, later proscribed by English common law, that required the...
How to Search the Social Security Death Index…

Tips for Taking Great Cemetery Pictures

Pictures are a wonderful way to document , from scenic views of the cemetery, to inscriptions of individual tombstones. It isn’t always as easy as it seems, however, to achieve sharp, clear photographs of stones that may be centuries old. That old stone may be...
Staveness Family

Staveness Family

So why the Staveness Family you ask, well this was not built for Lady Kathleen, but in fact Lady Kathleen’s children, Rebecca and Jon.  This is their fathers line.   Thanks to their Great Uncle Henry, this line goes back a ways and includes a lot...