Lanaii The Family Historian

I have read many death certificates as a part of my family history research. Often times I found numbers written by hand in the margins and ...

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is changing its name to Scouts of America. The BSA has seen a gradual decline in its membership. The organiz...

I spent several days in Washington, D. C., last week and visited war monuments and museums. The first war monument that I visited was the Wo...

My great-great grandfather was William B. Stoutenburg. I did not know what the initial B represented. Then about 20 years ago, I came across...

Scams and swindles are nothing new. They have been around as long as mankind has existed. I came across an article that was printed on July...

Many years ago, I had a roommate when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She was born in Switzerland to Chinese pa...

A distant relative, John Howland Wood, went to Texas from New York in 1836 to fight on behalf of the residents of Texas who were seeking ind...