My great-grandfather, George Arthur Walsh (1873-1943), was particularly quiet about his family. When he died, my grandfather was just seven, and it was assumed he had no living relatives. However, when I began my genealogical research, I discovered that he was the..

1897 map of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Matthews-Northrup Company (via Wikimedia Commons)

One “employment perk” at American Ancestors is a complementary consultation with one of our genealogists, and every now and then I get paired with a colleague for such..

21 Chestnut Avenue, Boston, in 2024

Our neighbors affect us in direct and indirect ways. Whether you’ve only ever lived in single-family homes or you have experience residing in multi-family dwellings, you can likely remember your neighbors and the ways you impacted..

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a member of the third generation of Anoa’i family wrestlers, at WWE Wrestlemania 28 in 2012

I am about to share a secret that few, if any of my fellow researchers at American Ancestors know about me: I love professional wrestling. I was..