Baxter was a pioneer in a dangerous new discipline, a discipline many contemporaries died trying to perfect.
Joseph and Eleanor Adams of Henderson, Kentucky
Diphtheria in 1870s Kansas, and its tragic family consequences
George Washington Grayson was born in a Kentucky log cabin. His life was marked by multiple marriages and significant events in Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.
Our Illinois relatives were among the first to name their sons in honor of Abraham Lincoln.
Civil War documents connect disparate branches of our Grayson family tree, during and after the conflict.
Peter Wagener Grayson - early 19th century attorney, poet, soldier, and Texas Republic politician - left a distinguished yet tragic legacy.
Benjamin Grayson moved to Kentucky in the 1780s. In his role as a county court clerk he left documentation of an 1814 union that bridges past and present.
Joe Thompson was born in Kentucky, near the farmland of his long-ago pioneer ancestors. His American Catholic heritage goes back ten generations to the founding of the Catholic colony of Maryland.
"Why in the world would anyone want to assign ID numbers to a bunch of dead relatives?"