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One thing to keep in mind if you are looking for census information for someone born around 1890: Apparently, the entire 1890 United States census burned in a fire. So because of this, since Bert Ryan was born in 1885 and was married by 1910, the only census we have to work with for him […]

Here’s the Story My branch of the Ryan family grows from several very old and well documented roots. On my mother’s side, we have the Caldwells and the Barringers. Both families have been traced back several generations, even before Ancestry.com became a thing. On my father’s side, there is his mother’s family, the Addingtons, who, […]