Genealogy Roundup, February 9
In this week's Roundup: Your ancestry is more than just DNA, adopting a legacy mindset, living funerals, African American genealogy, and so much more.
In this week's Roundup: Your ancestry is more than just DNA, adopting a legacy mindset, living funerals, African American genealogy, and so much more.
In this week's Roundup: My post on Annie Moore went a bit viral, a hotel waiting for people to claim lost luggage from 100 years ago, what makes genealogists tick, and much more.
In this week's Roundup: A multi-generational Italian-American pastry shop, when genealogy and art meet, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Why archivists get rid of things, Meg Ryan's roots, a soldier lost in WWII accounted for, 84 year old twins who dress alike daily, and much more.
In this week's Roundup: The tombstone I was tempted to commission, changes to the U.S. Census, the musical road in Hungary, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A documentary about the village that's home of all the Smolenyaks (and variations) and an interesting resource for US census data.
In this week's Roundup: The real-life high society, private investigator mother who inspired a detective mystery, good news from Reclaim the Records, digitizing photos, pen pals who meet after 70 years, and so much more.
In this week's Roundup: The Nostalgia Machine, how a rare portrait of an enslaved child arrived at the Met, one of the world's largest family trees, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Obituary for a Quiet Life: "The quiet lives pass on soundlessly in the background. And yet those are the lives in our skin, guiding us from breakfast to bed." When life hands you 65 unexpected siblings, when it's handy to have an unusual name, and much more.
In this week's Roundup: The surgeon who fought to mend disfigured WWI soldiers, discovering a rogue in the family tree, and much more.