Hiding the Past: A Genealogical Crime Mystery by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (2013). Patrick Coldrick has no past, but hires Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist, to find it. Others are interested, too…and people...
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos (2023) – not to be confused with books with similar titles about pirates and wives! Based on a trove...
Sometimes it was push, sometimes pull. It was a step or a leap. Perhaps it was goat herder to farmer? Peasant to shoemaker? Housebuilder to inventor? Maybe someone had a...
Nick earned both an MBA in Finance and a bachelor’s in accountancy at California State University, Sacramento, and he has worked both as an auditor and comptroller. Nick enjoys history,...
The Monday-After Presentation Follow-up is how Davis Genealogy Club members discuss what we learned at our General Meeting and Presentation the prior week! We discuss what we found helpful from...
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The Davis Genealogy Club Board meets quarterly in January, April, July and October. Board members have voting rights, however, all members are welcome to attend and give input into the...
Used (or misused) as a prison colony, England deported its convicts in the 1700s and beyond…and contributed to the making of Australia. Irish convicts in your line? Some may have...
Negative evidence is the hardest type of evidence to understand or use in genealogical research. By definition, a “type of evidence arising from an absence of a situation or information...
The Monday-After Presentation Follow-up is how Davis Genealogy Club members discuss what we learned at our General Meeting and Presentation the prior week! We discuss what we found helpful from...
As requested for the DGC Book Club, we’re continuing the Summer 2023 “Book Club”. This pick is the second in the Morton Farrier genealogical mystery series, also as requested by the...
Tent cities, soup kitchens, lost jobs, holes in soles…holes in souls. Unemployment at 25%. Forget the causes and the politics; people suffered to greater or lesser extent. In the 2020s,...