NEW FINDINGS · OCTOBER 29, 2026
Carole and Jerri: little pieces of growing up
School lists, a poem, Girl Scouts and a summer playground bring the sisters’ Kenilworth childhood into view.
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NEW FINDINGS · OCTOBER 29, 2026
The Becker family and the glove trade
A working household on Germania Avenue and a promising 1860 passenger list offer a clearer migration trail.
Read the storyNEW FINDINGS · OCTOBER 29, 2026
A few intriguing branches
A Boone brother, the Vanderbilt family and a seventeenth-century jailbreak: promising stories with their unproved links left visible.
Read the storyFAMILY KEEPSAKES · NEW JERSEY, 1942–1964
Four small cards, four lives remembered
Carlo, Ilario and Carmelina Minero, and Linda Becker: four preserved remembrance cards open new paths into Robin’s family history.
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THE FAMILY ALBUM
Two roads, one family
The Wood and Darsey branches come together in Dan and Nova’s family.
Read the storyNEW ORIGINAL RECORDS · OCTOBER 26, 2026
Making a living, making a home
A postman, a bus driver, a jeweler and three generations under one roof: original census pages bring Robin’s family into view.
Read the storyACROSS ERIC’S RECORDED ANCESTRY · OCTOBER 26, 2026
Testing the recorded family tree
Original evidence strengthens some family links and exposes impossible dates elsewhere. The conclusions stay with each record.
Read the storyDARSEY · GETTYS · FARR
Donna Kay: three names, one family
A marriage index joins the names. Family records connect Donna to Dan and Vera, to Michael, and to Teena and Eric’s family.
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TEENA’S TWO QUESTIONS
Henry Wood: where he lived, and who his parents were
Original Missouri census pages now support a birth around 1806 and strengthen the Freeman connection. His exact Buncombe home and parents remain unproved.
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Were Benjamin Darsey Sr. and Jr. really father and son?
Still unproved. Sr.’s recovered will, the 1810 guardianship and newly located legacy receipts sharpen the question without settling it.
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WOOD & DARSEY · UPDATED OCTOBER 28, 2026
A household, a factory, a farm
Mollie’s household, Nova’s newly documented Northrop employment and Dan’s wartime and farming records bring the family into view. Original notices also name three Wood sisters in California.
Read the storyGENERATIONS
The recorded Waguespack line
A family framework, supported event by event rather than assumed all at once.
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Louis in the Louisiana records
A sponsor and a witness appear in original parish pages.
Read the storyREADING THE ACTS
An estate is not a death date
The newly read 1794 printed partition names seven heirs and a widow whose names still need reconciliation.
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Looking for Barbe’s missing estate
The surviving record sequence helps frame a life without manufacturing an exact date.
Read the storyPHALSBOURG & BEINHEIM
Three European originals
Original pages replace copied citations, while the missing Louisiana relationship stays unresolved.
Read the storyPLACES & RETRIEVAL LEADS
Where was Joseph from?
A difficult place name and precise journal references guide the next search.
Read the storyWAGENBACH · WAGENSPACH · WAGUESPACK
The long history of a name
A history reaching into medieval records, without an invented medieval pedigree.
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MARFA TO ODESSA
Edward’s school photo and the Marfa years
A 1964 Odessa portrait joins the earlier school and working-life records; Davis and Eva’s marriage entry is now located.
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Clement of Marfa
A contemporary obituary strongly fits the family—and challenges an inherited middle name.
Read the storyMANHATTAN, 1880–1886
Billiards on West 37th Street
An original 1880 census now joins the business listings to Henry Schubiger’s household at 308 West 37th Street.
Read the storyIRVINGTON, 1932–1940
A chauffeur and a boxer
Original directories now follow Wendel’s driving work from 1932; a 1934 entry also calls him a boxer.
Read the storyIRVINGTON · KENILWORTH · BRICK
Florence’s New Jersey family
A bus driver, schoolchildren and named relatives: the original 1950 census joins the earlier family records.
Read the storyMĘDRZECHÓW, 1865
A Polish wedding, on the page
A parish record preserves ages, parents, house numbers and a father’s consent.
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Following the Minero clues
Original 1950 households add explicit family links, another son and an identity question. The Italian hometown and voyage remain open.
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