The Heritage Huntress

Ahh, Halloween. All Hallow’s Eve. Celebrated down through the centuries even to today. But how was it celebrated by our ancestors? I can’...

For many years, throughout my Dad’s childhood and continuing into my own, my grandmother’s next-door neighbor was a kind old woman named Mr...

For years I have been unable to trace the WADE branch of my family farther back than my great-great-great-grandfather Joseph WADE, who, acc...

This picture has long reposed in our family album, depicting my grandparents Aileen UNDERWOOD and Vinis “Red” BROSIUS. Although the ide...

Let me begin by saying I love oral history. It is one of the first things that interested me in my family history and genealogy. I was ne...

The dog up and died, he up and died, And after twenty years he still grieves. -"Mr. Bojangles" by Jerry Jeff Walker Our belove...

In 1844, Luxembourg was a Grand-Duchy within the German Confederation. Far in the northwest of the Grand-Duchy, in the ruggedly pictures...