THE CHATHAMS -Randi Koenig, a professional genealogist, will explain how to best research various historical records in a workshop at noon on Friday, May 3 at the Library of the
The Deadly Trail that Finally Revealed a Phantom Branch of My Family Tree My earliest American-born ancestor was my great-great-grandfather, Edward Murphy. It took a while to figure this out as the skimpy traces he left claimed both New York and Ireland as his birthplace, but then I stumbled across his baptism. To my delight,