The Newcombs in America

Death certificates are an important source of information. They tell us when, where, and how a person died. In theory, death certificates ma...

In 1874, John Bearse Newcomb (JBN) published Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family . His goal was to document "nearly every person...

I've noticed that many careless researchers think that any man named John Newcomb is John Bearse Newcomb. This error is often combined w...

Due to a flood of bizarre spam, I have had to disable commenting for a while.

I've been a member of Ancestry .com for years. It's a great source of information, via the many collections of records that have bee...

We tend to believe that certain sources of information are final authorities. Birth certificates, tombstones, newspaper announcements, ...

According to Legacy Family Tree some of the top genealogy mistakes are believing family myths, believing that family trees online are accur...