Since today is Tax Day , it seemed an appropriate time to share some tax lists that are freely available. New River Notes provides inform...

Wilderness Road. Library of Congress. Public domain. Available from Wikimedia Commons . For more than fifty years, people traveled to K...

Oblique air photo of Gunpowder River traveling through Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland. August 2010. Photo by Jstuby [Public domain]. Avai...

On 25 August 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that established the National Park Service . Every year on August 25, the Nation...

Maryland Tercentenary postage stamp, 1934. By U.S. Post Office [Public domain]. Available from Wikimedia Commons . March 25 is Maryland ...

Excerpt from will of John Greer , 2 April 1782, Wilkes County, North Carolina, Wills. North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970 , FamilySe...

My 6th-great-grandfather Francis Hardgrave was born on 5 March 1745 in Augusta County, Virginia. He was the son of James Hardgrave and Eliza...

Sarah, wife of Francis Hardgrave, was born on 7 February 1751, according to family Bible records. Edythe Rucker Whitley identified her as Sa...

I started off Day 3 of NGS with Craig Roberts Scott's 8:00 session on the Virginia militia. I had not realized that by law, every able-b...

Several members of my family were in the Confederate Army's 10th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, Company D (DeMoss'). My 3rd-great-gran...

March is Women's History Month , so it is a good time for me to write about my female ancestors. My 5th-great-grandmother Hannah Hardgra...