Genealogy facts are important, but they are only part of the puzzle. It’s just as important, if not more so, to incorporate storytelling into our genealogy efforts, transforming the facts we’ve discovered into vibrant narratives of our family history. To help our readers embrace the storytelling process, the March 2025 issue of Stirpes includes articles … Read more
Ladies–half our family trees–require well over 50 percent of our genealogical effort. Sometimes it seems more like 99 percent. We all know it’s not their fault–the records are stacked against them. In spite of the challenges and brick walls, we still want to know more about these women, what their lives were like, who they … Read more
Solving genealogy problems requires a multi-pronged approach of seeking out new records, understanding the context of those records, and analyzing the information collected to illuminate new connections. As we move through those steps—seeking, understanding, and analyzing—we often discover that we need to gain deeper insights and improve our skills to solve the research challenge we’re … Read more
TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. Genealogy is akin to searching for one tree in a forest, one needle in a haystack, … Read more
TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. Most genealogists can claim a number of ethnicities among their ancestors; we’re individual microcosms of the … Read more