Ok, in Western societies, death is a taboo subject. We don’t like it and we don’t…
Category: ancestry
Review Online genealogy tutorials and guides. Consult our genealogy research articles. The Basics, from the USGenWeb Project How to get started in Genealogy, from the Genealogy Adventures team.
Mystery#1: Getting to grips with James Mitchell Zachariah Sheffey [Mitchell Sheffey]
James Mitchell Zachariah Sheffey, Dicey Brock, Jersey (or Judy) Clark, Emily Cook, Martha Ann Hill and…
James Zachariah Mitchell Sheffey [Mitchell Sheffey] family tree
Wythe County, Virginia You can view this full screen by clicking the full screen options (the…
Recording names: Maiden names
One of the common challenges I come across in my family history research has to do…
Genealogy adventures: sifting family facts from myth
One of the earliest myths around the Sheffey name that I can remember is that the…
What’s in a name #2: Getting to grips with the misspelling of names
There is another fun aspect of searching for your ancestors in historical records: the misspelling of…
What’s in a name #1: abbreviations & nicknames
Abbreviated first names one of the things to get to grips with when searching online census,…
Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife, 1866 Feb.
The Library of Virginia has an extensive digital collection. This is a collection of documents that…
Taking those first few steps
Every adventure begins with the first step. I’d taken mine when I’d started tinkering around with…