‘Please give me a book that dramatizes bedbugs’: Cache of NY public library requests reveals what people would have been asking Google in the 1940s

I Didn’t Like My Son’s Name. So I changed it.

Nicole and DNA co-star? They’ve got chemistry – So happy to hear about this play about Rosalind Franklin, but how about a movie?

Shania Twain – Family Roots in Québec Found

World’s Largest Family Reunion: Genealogy or Preen-ealogy? – Well, I went out on a limb with this one and suspect it might provoke a bit of a reaction. We’ll see…

WWI Hero Sgt. Henry Johnson Receives Long Overdue Medal of Honor – So delighted that two WWI heroes I researched for the Army received the Medal of Honor from the President today! Here’s a piece I’ve written about Sgt. Johnson, which includes among other things, a letter written by Langston Hughes.