One particular problem drove me crazy. Daniel Chaplin had married Minerva (—?—) in New York. For years I searched everything I could find. I searched land records, studied their neighbors, followed them to Jones County, Iowa, read about Daniel’s death, Minerva’s remarriage, land sales with her second husband, and her death, but her maiden name [...]

I was searching for Olive (Slade) Twogood’s parents and siblings.   I found her in the 1850 U.S. census, age 45, born in New York.   On the next page of the census but living next door is Gideon Slade Jr., age 38, also born in New York[1] I formed the premise that Gideon might be Olive’s [...]

Are you having trouble finding a woman in your family line? Most of you have at least one where you still don’t know the maiden name of some member of your family, or a daughter married but you don’t know her married name. You searched all the online sources you know about and still struck [...]