Another lead discovered

Researching my Great -Great Grandfather Andrew E. Tryon has been a mystery for our family for a long time. He died leaving behind 3 motherless children in 1902. We kept hitting brick walls, between the Orphanage, and county records. Either the records were destroyed in fires or no direct family link to apply for the [Read On]

FREE Webinar Family Tree University

Researching your family history can be a great adventure. In this free Expert Webinars, Desmond Walls Allen, author of Family History Detective: A Step-by-Step Guide to Investigating Your Family Tree, will discuss research principles guaranteed to give you success. Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011Starting Time: 1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. PacificPresenter: Desmond Walls Allen, author of [Read On]

101 Brick Wall Busters

A few months back I took a wonderful course through Family Tree University, called 101 Brick Wall Busters. It is something that happens when researching our family. Records are lost, destroyed in fires, or never even existed. Record keeping wasn’t as wide spread in the early days of our Nation, many areas never kept records [Read On]