You’ve searched your ancestor’s life from the time he was born to the days he died and was buried.  Think you might be done researching him?  Maybe not! Some records may be created or recorded long after a person died! Land records may have been handed down for generations before the original documents were recorded.  [...]

Many people are descended from John Billington, a signer of the Mayflower Compact, who was convicted of murdering another man and suffered death by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts.   Billington was the first in New England to take another man’s life. Many have tripped down this same path, some against their own family members. In a [...]

Family rumor says that your Grandpa’s brother, Jack, robbed a bank and he served time for it,  or, maybe in your research you discovered one of those skeletons in your closet, the one with “thief” written across his forehead.  Sometimes our ancestors lived their whole lives without creating a single document that identifies them.  Other [...]