Join us as we explore land as both place and proof—an enduring record that anchors families to time, geography, and history. From federal patents and county deeds to contested inheritances and forced removals, the articles that follow demonstrate how land records do far more than describe property: they reveal relationships, expose social and legal realities, … Read more
The death of an ancestor often leaves behind a paper trail—obituaries, death certificates, funeral cards, tombstone inscriptions, and more. Each record helps genealogists document that final footprint. Yet these essential sources can be elusive or difficult to interpret. This issue of Stirpes explores the many ways death is recorded and remembered, offering insight, tools, and … Read more
Solving genealogy problems requires a multi-pronged approach of seeking out new records, understanding the context of those records, and analyzing the information collected to illuminate new connections. As we move through those steps—seeking, understanding, and analyzing—we often discover that we need to gain deeper insights and improve our skills to solve the research challenge we’re … Read more
TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. Most genealogists can claim a number of ethnicities among their ancestors; we’re individual microcosms of the … Read more
TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. Genealogists are, in a sense, sleuths. No detail is too small for investigation as we track … Read more