My goal is to help those with genealogical questions answer them and to also work with other genealogists to help them build their business.
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Finding Cuban Records – FamilySearch Style
In early 2020 FamilySearch released their Explore Historical Images tool, where digital images waiting to be indexed are stored. By the end of 2020, FamilySearch had over 4.3 billion record images and more than 1 million names indexed!1 What does...
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Family Legend
Every family has that legend where a kernel of truth exists in the hand-me-down telling of the tale. For my Riebe family, it was being a descendant of Peregrine White. As my grandpa Arthur told me the story, he said...
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Beginnings
In December of 2019, I looked forward to setting and smashing my 2020 genealogical goals. Then COVID happened. While the rest of the world seemed to slow down, my life seemed to get busier! Between work (a paying full-time job...
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Post Offices of the Past
(Originally posted on the Flagler County Historical Society website.) More than 100 years ago, there were many little towns located within the area now known as Flagler County. These towns had a need for postal service and between 1868 and...
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Do You Know About Reclaim the Records?
Reclaim the Records started as a personal passion project by Brooke Schreier Ganz and grew into a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. It’s an activist group that uses FOIA – Freedom of Information Act (Federal) and FOIL – Freedom of Information Law...
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Joseph Martin: The Almost Revolutionary War Patriot
Joseph Martin is my newly discovered 4x great grandfather. During past research for ProGen, I broke down the brick wall that was my 3x great grandmother, Telitha Martin. I realized through newspaper research that her last name was truly Martin...
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Clinton vs. Grimsley & Family
Just before COVID 19, a search of the St. Augustine Historical Society library brought up a name I had seen many times but for some reason, ignored. It was a civil court complaint file of Charles M. Clinton vs. Tabitha...
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A Forgotten Census – Florida African American Research
I recently learned about a book named “Census” Department of the South November, 1864 For Jacksonville, Fernandina and St. Augustine, Florida Ordered by the Department of the South, Hilton Head, South Carolina by the Florida State Genealogical Society. A super...
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Using Newspapers in your Genealogical Research
“Which newspaper subscription should I get?” I am asked that question frequently and I see it asked on various Facebook genealogy groups and forums. The answer to that question is, “It depends!” Newspapers are essential in your genealogy tool box...
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Our Anniversary and the Seminole Indian War
We were married on a very hot day 22 years ago, in Washington Oaks State Park, Florida. Shortly after our wedding and honeymoon, the world around us burst into flames as our little slice of paradise caught fire, in what...
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