TheAncestorFiles

Last week I had the amazing experience of giving a presentation at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. Here is a promotion for the...

... reposting from 2014 ... Here is a short guide to researching Mormon ancestry,  including a summary of some of the more useful r...

Ebenezer DeFriez was the older brother of Charles Godfrey DeFriez Jarvis. Jim Bowden has just written an excellent, detailed history of ...

The parents of Frances Ann Elizabeth Glade were recent immigrants to the United States. Frances's mother, Eliza Mary Litson, arriv...

It's Labor Day tomorrow. The picture to the left is Rose Biodo of Philadelphia, ten years old in 1910. She had already worked for t...

When I pulled up the map of Sidney Tanner's homes that I embedded in a previous post, I noticed that it had been viewed 180 times. It...

The years of 1838–1839 were a tragic and unstable time in our nation's history as the Mormon War raged in Missouri. The Mormons were...

Soldiers at Yorktown, including a black infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment. When he died in January 1777, Francis Tanner o...

Tanner Family Line Joseph Defriez (1793–1874) was the father of Joseph George Defriez. His profession was Funeral Feather Merchant, and ...

This morning I decided to spend a few minutes on my own genealogy, and searched for Sidney Tanner in CDNC ( California Digital Newspaper...