Fine Lines

The Many Wives of Mr. Covey Most of my ancestors rarely moved. Most of the time, they died in the same town where they were born. ...

What Do You Do With Your Genealogy? We are family historians. We collect documents. We fill our files with records (either digital or...

Are You Listening? Dear Ancestors, I am looking for you. And, you know it too. You see me scouring through records, hopping through long...

A Lesson of Patience and Persistence. In genealogy:  Women can be problematic.  Too often women's identities disappear from records in histo

My friend Margaret and I were having lunch the other day, discussing her upcoming birthday that led to her recent trials and tribulations...

Years ago, before Fold3.com existed, I ordered Thomas Carter Black’s Civil War pension, accompanied by the required fee.[1] He served as...

The Maier Family My grandmother Eleanor was one who practiced high moral ethics and lived within the realm of social class values and...

Fine Lines' blog debuts! Fine Lines Genealogy began in 2015, quietly making its entrance into the genealogy field. For years, I did my...