Recently, I attended an Irish Fest in Appleton, Wisconsin and spoke to a couple of very talented individuals regarding their skills in...

If you’ve been researching your family history for any length of time, I am sure you have run across an index to a document. It might be...

Sometimes you can find new family information in places you just don't expect. Here's an example!

The Celtic Connections Conference has announced that it will hold a virtual conference available on its web site beginning on July 31st....

I am occasionally asked by folks who are beginning their genealogy, "how do I start?". My comment is always "start with yourself!". Write...

I hope you are staying safe and healthy. We have been told by the Milwaukee Irish Fest that this year's festival has been canceled. The...

The Primrose Girls Project is attempting to locate the descendants of 156 orphan girls who departed Ireland for Canada in 1853.

I have been researching my own family ancestry and others for quite a long time. I've come across a document every so often or learn...

Getting to and from work today is a matter of getting in the car or perhaps a bus or even the subway and many of us use public...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "a theory" "as a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles...

Wouldn't it be interesting if you could talk to an ancestor or someone who lived over a hundred years ago? Would you ask them about their...

I was clearing through some paperwork on my desk recently and ran across a newspaper article about one of my great uncles Len Goerlinger....

The 15th of April is now known as Titanic Remembrance Day. It is a day where we pause to remember the sinking of the HMS Titanic in the...

This is one of our favorite blogs from the past and one of our favorite places to stop when in Ireland and Northern Ireland. If you plan...