When I read Aaron Naparstek's article The Big One , I learned, for the first time, about some of the major hurricanes that had hit NYC i...

In the wave of Hurricane Sandy madness that's spreading through New York City as well as through my Facebook newsfeed, my cousin posted ...

I spent Friday and Saturday of this weekend at The Genealogy Event in NYC, and had a fantastic time. Although it wasn't quite on the sc...

My paternal great-grandmother was Mary Quinn ("Grandma Molly"), and to my knowledge - and according to information given me by oth...

My maternal family all hail from the south of Italy, most of them from the small town of Bitetto, outside of Bari. I could be writing a...

Is there an embarrassing typo in the title of this post? Or have I come up with a particularly clever name for a little project I've bee...

Many of my ancestors lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, from the 1850s and for a century thereafter. Their earliest sacraments in America took p...

[This post originally appeared on September 11, 2011.] I've struggled with whether to blog about my memories of September 11, 2001, ...

(An occasional series outlining one of my ancestral families.) Hugh J. Quinn and Mary Gillen (Gillan) were my 2x great-grandparents. Mary ...

As I related in an earlier post , I was recently blown away to discover that two associated Mulvanys (James and John), both from Kells, Co. ...

I just had the following brief exchange with my husBen: * He had noticed the Application for Copy of Birth Record I was filling out. Be...

Like most people with limited time and funds, I tend to focus primarily on my direct ancestors and turn to more distant, tangential lines on...