Anyone building their family tree has probably run into that one ancestor that refuses to be “found”. I have one – my great-great-grandmother – and the lengths I’ve gone to uncover information about her is sometimes embarrassing. At the very…
My mother found this amazing website that has digitized a number of newspapers from the Dutchess County area of New York. The papers go back to at least the early 1800s and since that is where much of my family…