Recent Works

Deep research, stories, and photographs combine to reconstruct the particulars of historical lives. Many children and sibling names included, and many sources and references cited, with particular attention paid to women. Not a workbook, but an illustration of one...

Quarantine Music, Andante But Never Agitato From Singing All the Verses:  Essays from a Mid-American A few years ago, I was ambling through one of those antique stores composed of bookshelves, tables of different heights, glassed-in display cases with peculiar locks,...

INTRODUCTION Rather than the tidy record-keeping Dutch,  this branch of the family springs from the entirely untidy, un-spelling, big-familied and intermarrying Irish.  Irish genealogy, I was told early on, was a miasma, and I will not disagree.  It does not help that...

Speaking as a historian, a tremendous work.  Excellent.” –Catherine Emerson, Niagara County Historian, New York This story started with one old photo in a box, and includes hundreds of proper names, surnames, and locations, fleshing out dry facts into stories about...

Uncle Tex’s Wedding My elderly aunt and I disgraced ourselves in the newspaper archives up at the History Center this year, laughing and sputtering and leaning on the microfilm reader, amid disapproving looks from our fellows. We were working on family history,...