by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 16, 2026
Everyone in my family loves chocolate – some claim to be chocoholics. When I randomly found a Hershey/Hirschi line in my FamilySearch Family Tree, I began to claim that “chocoholism” ran in the family. However, I could never easily find this Hershey/Hirschi line...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 9, 2026
Along with its huge collection of newspapers, another important source of genealogy records GenealogyBank offers is the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). This is a database of people with Social Security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Oct 2, 2026
Genealogists spend a lot of time searching for – and then studying – death records. This pursuit may seem morbid to non-genealogists, but family historians know the important information death records can provide about your ancestors. To go beyond vital statistics and...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Sep 25, 2026
On a spring evening in 1787, the quiet countryside of Christiana Hundred, Delaware, was shattered by the cries of a violent quarrel. Inside a small farmhouse, Sarah Kirk and her husband, James, exchanged blows that would end with his death and her eventual execution....
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Sep 18, 2026
Many records are created around a person’s death: death certificate, obituary, burial records, probate records. Probate records pre-date many other kinds of death records. When a person dies owning property, the probate process distributes that property among...
