(a posting by Mark Todd) This post is the second in a two-part series describing my slaveholding ancestors and their slaves. Click here f...

(a posting by Mark Todd) That my heritage includes ancestors who owned slaves should not have come as any surprise to me: I descend from mul...

 (posted by Mark Todd) DNA findings of the last decade have certainly revealed surprises for many test-takers--sometimes awkward and surpris...

(A post by Mark Todd) One of my early goals as a budding genealogist was to track the direct descent of the paternal surnames of my four gra...

(Posted by Mark Todd) I've been reading Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Alan Taylor's American Colonies , a socio-political  and e...

( The third and final in a three-part blog series.) In the previous posting , I reported my research establishing and identifying Thomas Tod...

(This is part two of a three-part blog series. Click here to see part one .)  Kym and I are real fans of Skip Gates's PBS series Finding...