For more than a decade, I've been trying to answer a simple question: Was my fifth great-grandfather Thomas Kirk (1778–1846) really a so...

For years, one of the most intriguing figures connected to the Thomas Kirk family has been Vachel Kirk (1783–1836) of Butler County, Ohio. ...

When Edmond Oscar Hawks passed away in October 1910 in Rossville, Kansas, his obituary noted that he was survived by his wife Iva Elzina (Ha...

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In July 1973, a devastating  fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri destroyed millions of military files, inc...