by Carol Stetser Like most family historians, I’d always felt that I was using newspapers effectively. After all, I’d looked up literally dozens of obits and marriage and birth announcements. Recently, however, I’ve come to realize that historic (and even modern) newspapers offer a whole lot more. Since they were written for contemporary readers, at […]

By Julie Miller, CG The year is almost over, and already there have been numerous natural disasters that have hit close to home: the tornadoes in Northern Colorado, the floods in the Midwest, and the wildfires in California. Watching the people on the news who have been affected has been heart-wrenching. Many folks have lost […]

by LCGS Researcher Carol Stetser For many family historians finding a copy of their ancestors’ names on a ship’s passenger list is high on their list of priorities. With so many passenger records online, it would seem that finding an immigrant ancestor should be fairly simple, especially for those who landed in the later 19th […]