Chronological List of Stories

2025 and 2026

2024

December 27, 2024Weaving Facts into a Family Story: Historical Context and Perspective
December 18, 2024The Need for Standards and Method in Genealogy Research
December 8, 2024Genealogical Facts and Evidence
December 2, 2024My Approach & Method in Genealogy Research
November 26, 2024The Impact of Autosomal DNA Tests: A Profound Discovery
November 20, 2024My Ongoing Discoveries from Autosomal DNA Tests, Continued
November 15, 2024My Ongoing Discoveries from Autosomal DNA Tests
November 8, 2024Autosomal DNA Tests: Estimating Genetic Relationships and Discovering Relatives
September 3, 2024Are There Different Versions of an 1868 Gloversville Map?
September 3, 2024“Next Door” Neighbors – Two Sisters and Their Families
August 14, 2024Johann Wolfgang Sperber, Part Eight: 1890 – 1905 Establishing his Legacy
August 3, 2024Johann Wolfgang Sperber: Part Seven: 1870 and 1880s, Living the American Dream
July 16, 2024Johann Wolfgang Sperber – Part Six: 1850s – 1860s, Starting a New Life in America
June 30, 2024Johann Wolfgang Sperber – Part Five: From New York City to Gloversville, Fulton County
June 19, 2024Johann Wolfgang Sperber – Part Four: Heading to Fulton County and Glove Making
May 24, 2024Auswandererkarten or German Emigration Maps
May 16, 2024Our German Descendants from Baden: A Tradition of Migration (Part Two)
May 9, 2024German Descendants from Baden: Following a Long Tradition of Migration (Part One)
May 4, 2024John Wolfgang Sperber – Part Three: “3 Paths to Choose”
April 23, 2024John Wolfgang Sperber – Part Two: His Journey to Le Havre
April 11, 2024The Impact of Diphtheria in the late 1800s
April 2, 2024Recent Discoveries from Oral History Compiled by a Local Mayfield Historian – Part II
March 28, 2024Recent Discoveries from Oral History Compiled by a Local Mayfield Historian – Part I
March 13, 2024The Virtues of Town Historians and Oral Histories
February 29, 2024February 29th – Happy Leap day!
January 30, 2024John Wolfgang Sperber – Part One: The First of the Sperbers in America

2023

October 10, 2023The Fliegel Family: Their Journey to America
September 26, 2023The Sperber & Fliegel Families in America: Catherine Fliegel the First to Arrive
September 5, 2023Newspaper Articles: Sperber Brothers as Policemen – Part II
August 30, 2023Newspaper Articles: Sperber Brothers as Policemen Part I
August 30, 2023Newspaper Articles: Sperber Brothers as Policemen Part I
August 24, 2023Sperber Brothers: The Policemen from Gloversville
July 11, 2023A German Influence
July 4, 2023The Art of Translation and Discovery
March 23, 2023Faces in Old Photographs: Two Young Men
March 17, 2023Is the Huntington NY Griff(is)(es)(ith) Family Name Welsh?
March 14, 2023Happy Pi Day!
March 3, 2023Y-DNA & the Griffis Paternal Line Part Five: Using Y-DNA & Locating a Griff(is)(es)(ith) Relative and Other Leads
February 24, 2023Y-DNA and the Griffis Paternal Line Part Four: Teasing Out Genetic Distance & Possible Genetic Matches
February 23, 2023Y-DNA and the Griffis Paternal Line Part Three: The One-Two Punch of Using SNPs and STRs
February 6, 2023Y-DNA and the Griffis Paternal Line Part Two: Snips and Strings and Other Interesting Things

2022

September 26, 2022Y-DNA and the Griffis Paternal Line – Part One
April 2, 2022Part Three: How Do You Spell Griffis?
March 16, 2022The Griffis Surname and the Family from Huntington, New York: Part Two
February 17, 2022Griff(is)(in)(ith)(iths)(es)(in)(ins)(ing) Surname and American Genealogies: Part One

2020 and 2021

October 12, 2021Part II: Riverside – Riparius: Summer Home for the Griffis Family
October 12, 2021Part I: Riverside – Riparius: Summer Home for the Griffis Family
August 14, 2021Being the Wife of a Methodist Minister
August 6, 2021David Griffis – A Short Precious Life
August 6, 2021Harold William Griffis – A Methodist Minister with the Ability to Clothe Spiritual Truths in the Cloak of Humor: Part III
August 4, 2021Harold William Griffis – A Methodist Minister – one of the younger members who has established an enviable record: Part II
July 22, 2021Harold William Griffis – A Methodist Minister with Wit and Uncommon Sense: Part I
July 17, 2021The Marriage of Harold and Evelyn Griffis
May 17, 2021Harold William Griffis – His Sermons
April 5, 2021Harold William Griffis – College Years 1921-1925
March 17, 2021 Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
March 13, 2021Daniel Griffis – Captured, Imprisoned, & Perished
March 5, 2021William James Griffis and Daniel Griffis – A Tale of Two Brothers (Part Three)
February 14, 2021Charles Tomlinson Griffes – The American Art Song
February 13, 2021William James Griffis and Daniel Griffis – A Tale of Two Brothers (Part Two of Three)
February 3, 2021William James Griffis and Daniel Griffis – A Tale of Two Brothers (Part One)
January 28, 2021Father and Son Bore an ‘Unenviable Reputation’
January 19, 2021Dont Forgit the Gloves
January 15, 2021Buttons, Medals and Civil War Remembrance
December 29, 2020Family Tree Individual Locator
October 21, 2020How I Began My Journey