This post is about using DNA testing in an attempt to discover my direct ancestor Thomas Chapman's unknown origins and a bit about the...

This post was going to be about Harvey Edward Chapman's suicide and efforts by his father Addison to retrieve his body for burial. But...

I have five direct ancestors that fought in the Union Army during the US Civil War. At least three of them, possibly more, became members...

Bernard Neal Chapman, my Dad's first cousin, survived the torpedoing of his ship, the USS Benjamin Harrison, by U-boats during WW II....

The surname Chapman is most frequently found in England and Wales, and the English speaking countries Australia, Canada and the USA....

This week's topic is about my great-great grandfather's headstone. It has the wrong date of his death. Oops. Addison G. Chapman was born...