Roots and all - A Genealogy Blog

Kevin Bacon Actor Perhaps you've heard of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Well the game works equally as well for genealogy. Kevin Bacon...

     This 4th of July I am thinking back about my ancestors that served the United States in times of conflict.  My ancestors fought in nea...

Jesse James and Frank James American Outlaws The James brothers, members of the infamous James-Younger Gang, are my 9th cousins 4 times remo...

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States Barack Obama is my 12th Cousin on my father's side (via the Beasley family) and is my w...

Dolley Payne Madison First Lady of the United States Dolley Madison is my 3rd Cousin 7 times removed. (via my paternal great-grandmother Cha...

I'm starting a new ongoing post series today. Famous Fridays will spotlight famous relatives to whom I am somehow related. The idea for...

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops a...