Heartland Genealogy

Anyone who has lived in Emporia, Kansas realizes that Veteran's Day is a MAJOR holiday. Today, we take time to honor those who have serv...

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on ...

  Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music): 1)  Using your ancestral lines, how far bac...

Emporia Gazette Wednesday, July 18, 1984 page 2 column 4-5 Film E1506 KS State Historical Society

     Charles Oliver Mentzer was born on 1 Jul 1869 in Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, United States. 1 – 12 1 , 10 , 13 – 14 He lived in Kew...

Have you ever had trouble documenting a father/son relationship? Or, have you had trouble separating records for men of the same name? My go...

While searching the Yates Center News for an article stating that Cleo B. Peake was awarded the purple heart, I discovered another cousin ki...

For some, DNA is all about their ethnicity. For me, it is all about finding actual cousins. I'm not just looking for that 7 cM of comm...