By guest writer Melvin Larry Williams ~ Who was my earliest known ancestor and did I come from a family with historical significance? There comes a time in our life when these questions beg answers, it is happening to more and more people and is fuel to the explosion of interest in family genealogy.  Recent... Continue Reading →

By Sue Ward~ Through the course of research, how often is it that you find a lone ranger in a cemetery buried with no other relatives?  Not very often.  There are unmarked graves we will never be able identify.  But if you look carefully and consider all headstones and the married names of the women,... Continue Reading →

By Wanda Tucker~ If you read my post “What’s in a Name” from a few weeks back, I wrote about searching for a woman in the early 1900s in Wyoming, and the absolutely crazy ways the family name was spelled in various sources. When you are searching for a family, particularly one with a “foreign”... Continue Reading →

By Sue Ward~ Sometimes we get so wrapped up in what we are presently researching, we tend to forget what we have already acquired.  This is a big mistake. After publication of our first Patriot Edward Williams book, those records were filed away.  I began working on another collateral family of mine, the Jarretts.  As... Continue Reading →

by Wanda Tucker~ Sometimes, as I do this work, tracking people across history, I am absolutely baffled by the range of errors that are found in the United States Census. After all, these are some of the earliest government documents we have, and one would hope that the people chosen to compile the information were... Continue Reading →

by Wanda Tucker~  Have you ever found a genealogical document that took your breath away? That one bit of information that tied up a loose end, confirmed a long-suspected connection, or simply pinpointed some lost relative? Well, I have. But sometimes, the document in question generates more questions than answers. In genealogy, documents are the... Continue Reading →

by Sue Ward~ In this research challenge, I was looking for the ancestry of a man named Rowland Patterson. Studying the early census records and eliminating families for whom Rowland Patterson would not qualify as their son was the beginning point.  Rowland was born in 1790 so his parents must be the correct age and... Continue Reading →

by Wanda Tucker ~ In the course of genealogical research, I have come across documents which would seem to be completely unreadable. They are in the public domain, many others have seen them, and no one has ever translated them. This can be because of damage, but many times it is simply a matter of... Continue Reading →

We are so excited to start our new endeavor, trustygenealogist.com! After authoring two books on genealogy, your trusty genealogists realized that we had so much incredible research and so many techniques to share, but no real place to share them. Not all research becomes a book, but can be very valuable to people who are... Continue Reading →