Photo: the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Cqui; Wikimedia Commons.

How to Research a Town’s Genealogy, & Funny Texas Town Names

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on April 1, 2014

In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak shares some of the unusual and funny Texas town names she’s discovered in her research... (Read More)

Photo: one end of the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1941. Credit: John Vachon; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Old Newspapers Help Find Family’s ‘Lost’ Town

By Scott Phillips on December 3, 2012

In this article, Scott Phillips searches online newspapers to solve the mystery of why/how his ancestor’s hometown of North Hibbing, Minnesota, disappeared... (Read More)