Vita Brevis has only been live for a week, and it looks like we're going to have a thriving community here. We have have lots of exciting content planned in the coming weeks, but in the meantime we've been reading your comments and are already rolling out a number of..

Welcome to Vita Brevis, the blog of American Ancestors, a national nonprofit center for family history, heritage, and culture based in Boston, Massachusetts, that has been setting the gold standard for family history research since its founding in 1845. Today, American..