Case studies tracing families who migrated together, often applying Elizabeth Shown Mills’s FAN Principle to confirm identity and kinship connections.
I’m delighted to announce that my article “Unearthing the Migration of Benjamin Williams from North Carolina to Kentucky” has been published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 114, No. 2 (June 2026). The article traces Benjamin Williams (died 1817 in Barren County, Kentucky) from his North Carolina origins through …
I’m pleased to announce that my latest research article, “Five Families from Hawkins County, Tennessee: Their 1850s Migration to Pulaski County, Kentucky,” has been published in the Tennessee Genealogical Society‘s Ansearchin’ News. My search for one person–virtually a needle in a haystack–stumbled upon a mass migration in the 1850s. East …
When you know where your ancestors should be but you can’t find them in the records–where do they go? What if they went to a place where there are no records? When I explored my Williams family line I found they disappeared from records and went to an area termed …
