Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog

Have you ever seen a family use the mother's surname, instead of the father's? My maternal grandmother, Elaine Stuempges, is the gra...

My paternal grandmother's surname is Adas. Before immigrating to America, they were ethnic Kashubians from West Prussia. It was my gran...

My mother's family, the Rodgers, have been in America since the early 18th century; immigrating from Ireland in 1718 and settling in Pen...

A few weeks ago, I was doing some indexing and arbitrating for the Hungarian civil registration records on FamilySearch Indexing. To my sur...

Long have I put off beginning this weekly genealogical meme, but it's about time I started! Before I begin with the actual data, I wante...

Lately, on my down time from work and helping out family, I've been doing some sleuthing into Zsa Zsa Gabor's family a bit more. Ba...

Earlier tonight, I saw a genealogy friend on Facebook make a post about some potential lines of research that had opened up for her recently...