Family History

6 Things You Didn’t Know about Hannah Waddingham’s Roots

By |2023-05-31T15:11:08-04:00May 31st, 2023|Celebrities, Family History, Featured, Human Interest, Research|

It was all but inevitable that I would take a genealogical dive to learn more about the family that has given us Ms. Waddingham, and it didn’t disappoint.

Genealogy Roundup, April 5

By |2023-04-18T18:05:08-04:00April 5th, 2023|DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Family History, Genealogy Roundup, Human Interest, Military|

In this week's Roundup: Welcome home to Pvt. Myron E. Williams, who gave his life in WWII, a 40-year genealogy mystery solved, teaching computer to read, and much more.

Genealogy Roundup, January 4

By |2023-01-04T20:25:28-05:00January 4th, 2023|DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Family History, Genealogy Roundup, Human Interest, Immigration, Military|

In this week's Roundup: Death masks, finding family, how a research trip turned into a life mission, remembering Annie Moore, and so much more.

Genealogy Roundup, October 26

By |2022-10-26T10:27:24-04:00October 26th, 2022|Family History, Genealogy Roundup, Human Interest, Immigration, Research|

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.

Genealogy Roundup, September 14

By |2022-09-14T11:09:54-04:00September 14th, 2022|DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Family History, Genealogy Roundup, History, Human Interest, Military, Research|

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.

Genealogy Roundup, August 24

By |2022-08-24T10:20:18-04:00August 24th, 2022|Books, DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Family History, Genealogy Roundup, Human Interest|

In this week's Roundup: 5 places that are special to Irish-Americans, reading the hidden stories in the U.S. Census, bringing the stories of enslaved people out of the shadows, and much more.

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