Genealogy Roundup, December 7
In this week's Roundup: Donation of Irish-Jewish family records, a shout-out for Unclaimed Persons, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Donation of Irish-Jewish family records, a shout-out for Unclaimed Persons, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A soldier reported MIA in the Korean War accounted for plus taking baby steps on Mastodon as a potential backup or alternative to Twitter
In this week's Roundup: Recipe epitaphs that are "a tip of the hat to life’s simple joys," girls who met while sailing to the U.S. meet again 75 years later, great new genie tools to play with, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Musical show about Annie Moore, Flat Stanley Does His Roots, research tools, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A great new research tool plus how life stories of enslaved people became "crucial to a legal battle over a Louisiana petrochemical facility that could triple residents’ exposure to carcinogens."
In this week's Roundup: A generation of Europeans, adopted as children, is now returning to Sri Lanka to search for their birth mothers; finding lost military personnel in the ocean, free research tools for genealogists, and more.
In this week's Roundup: "Thanks to a group of scientists at Stanford Medicine [and their new 5-hour DNA sequencing technique], the elusive same-day diagnosis may finally be within reach."
In this week's Roundup: A soldier lost in World War II has been accounted for, that feeling when you find out you're researching a relative, and more.
In this week's Roundup: That feeling you get when the same soldier is claimed as being both Mennonite and Jewish...
In this week's Roundup: DNA identifies soldiers but also reveals mix-ups that resulted in some service members being buried in the wrong grave, insight into early Florida history, how a Black family's Bible ended up in the Smithsonian Institution and so much more.