For as long as I can remember, every Easter my grandma would make a homemade lamb-shaped pound cake using a cast-iron mold.  The cake was frosted with seven-minute frosting, then coconut and the final touches were green coconut grass and …

In this short post, I am going to tell you a true story that recently happened to me over spring break and how it got me thinking afterwards about how it connects to genealogy. How many of my readers wear …

Now that the 1950 census has been released, the fun begins!  Any family genealogist knows what I am talking about, but before the fun can begin, the records need to be indexed to make them “searchable.” If you have a …

This is a short post about the 1950 census that was released on April 1, 2022. Right now, the 1950 census is not indexed or “searchable”, but on Ancestry you can sign-up to receive notification about the state or territory …