The Elijah Edens Brick Wall Each family tree has a brick wall, and most of the time it is on one of the main paternal or maternal lines. For my family research that brick wall is Elijah Edens, born about 1810, probably in Virginia. In the more than 20 years I have been researching Elijah … Read more
Bad genealogy research appears to be popping its ugly head all around lately, in message boards, in conversations, online, and even in lectures. I was contacted by a distant cousin asking if I knew anything about a Martin Van Buren Edens who had served in the Union army. I looked in my tree and did … Read more
I am sitting here at my porch desk, watching Hurricane Harvey dump 14 inches of rain on my house in the past 36 hours. This weather started me wondering, how has weather affected our ancestors? In history we learn about the Dust Bowl during the 1930s, and how the drought conditions of the central prairies … Read more