Scourges of the 19th Century, Ancestry, January/February 2009
Cholera. Yellow fever. Tuberculosis. In the late 1800s, sanitation was poor in crowded tenements, doctors didn't really understand disease, and one in five children didn't survive. Then came germ theory.

Attic Finds, Ancestry, September/October 2008
Sometimes it's not your family that makes you want to look into the past. These homeowners are compelled to trace the genealogy of their houses.

New York City: Milestone Meals, US Airways magazine, August 2008
In May 1908, Manhattan’s subway service reached Brooklyn for the first time. Today, you can still take the train to borough restaurants that were serving New Yorkers a century ago.

Visiting History on the Lower East Side, Ancestry, March/April 2008
The Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York, built in 1887, celebrates its history as The Museum at Eldridge Street.

Murder in Madison, Ancestry, March/April 2007
Little Annie Lemberger would have been his aunt, but Mark Lemberger had never heard of her until a news story revisited her 1911 abduction and murder. The story named his grandfather as the killer; his mother said it wasn't true. Mark took a leave from his job and spent six years researching and writing about what really happened.

Serendipity, Ancestry, September/October 2006
Ever get the feeling you're being led? Every family historian, it seems, has a story about stumbling upon a clue through sheer unbelievable luck. Genealogist Hank Z Jones calls this "the Twilight Zone of genealogy."

Paint by Letters, Ancestry, May/June 2006
When Cindy Pringle's grandmother died, she found the love letters her grandfather had written during their courtship. Years later, another cache of letters turned up inside a bathroom wall--the missing half of the correspondence.
She knew she had to find a way to share this glimpse into the past.