The study of gravestone epitaphs is a fascinating offshoot of genealogy, and many of our ancestors have left us some humorous or reflective ...

This is not a blog about my personal Vance genealogy, but I recently tried a nice trick I read about reviving old pictures and I thought I...

Detail from Blaeu's 1645 map of the Luxembourg area, showing the town of Vance and its bridge over the Semois River In the hill...

I'd like to throw some caution out there about what DNA tells us about the Irish Vances.  Over the past few months I've seen several...

I recently came across a reference to the 1827 Carson-Vance duel in western North Carolina (see below) and it got me wondering how ma...

Today's blog post is a musty dive into old books, so I thought I'd start with a fun fact:  did you know that on Ancestry.com there a...

Was a man named Gilbert Vance in counties Cavan and Fermanagh one of the first Scottish Vance immigrants into Ireland? In the early 160...