The Deadly Trail that Finally Revealed a Phantom Branch of My Family Tree My earliest American-born ancestor was my great-great-grandfather, Edward Murphy. It took a while to figure this out as the skimpy traces he left claimed both New York and Ireland as his birthplace, but then I stumbled across his baptism. To my delight,
Nick Kaufmann’s discussion during the Kinseekers meeting should prompt genealogists to consider what happens to their research when they decide they’re finished and want all that hard work preserved by