“’Twas a dark and stormy night when my Nellie went away. I’ll never forget to my dying day.  She was just 16, the village queen, …” (“Little Nell,” from old vaudeville). Many of you have stories of ancestors who have disappeared in the night, like the daughter of an earl who fell in love with [...]

Have you found a skeleton in your closet, some deep secret that the family never talked about or never new about?  I have. I have found more than one, but I’ll tell you about one.  In compiling a family history I discovered one lady had been married previous to her current husband but no one [...]

Sometimes in our genealogy searching we just stumble on something we weren’t even looking for.  That happened to me one night as I surfed the internet searching for a way to access the records of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Livesey St., Manchester, England. My ancestor, Thomas Francis Farrell, had married Winifred Moran there on 28 [...]