Six Feet Deep
Multi-part investigations that follow a mystery from first clue to final discovery.
Field Notes
Discoveries and observations from cemeteries, archives, and ground-level investigations.
The Toolbox
Research tools, methods, and practical guides to help you dig deeper with confidence.
Quick Digs
Short discoveries, mini-breakthroughs, and brief stories that still reveal something meaningful.
Genealogy & Tech Updates
Updates on new tools, record releases, DNA tech, and innovations shaping modern genealogy.
Obscure Lot
The search for the lost burying ground of the Clinton County, Ohio, Infirmary, where at least 250 people were laid to rest between 1840 and 1903.
Gist Settlement
The Highland County, Ohio, settlement founded by people freed under Samuel Gist’s will, and the ground they lived on.
WPA Veterans’ Graves
What the WPA’s survey of veterans’ graves in Clinton County, Ohio, recorded, and what it missed.
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Which AI Are You Using?
It is one of the questions I hear most in the field, from people in their twenties and their nineties. My answer starts with one page from an old county record book, six AI tools, and a coffin that was never in the record.