Genealogy Roundup, February 17
In this week's Roundup: Remembering Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson, Pharrell Williams' family tree, weirdly wonderful names, and more...
In this week's Roundup: Remembering Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson, Pharrell Williams' family tree, weirdly wonderful names, and more...
In this week's Roundup: Memories of my Dad on what would have been his 85th birthday, a hidden gem in an 1864 town book, the last man to leave Ellis Island, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A promising new resource for researching and remembering people who were enslaved, plus an oldie but goodie memory of the late, great Leah Chase, Queen of Creole Cuisine.
In this week's Roundup: Biden’s Biden Roots: Westbourne or Huntingdon, England or Maybe Nagpur, India?
In this week's Roundup: Why baby books are amazing historical documents, plus a peek into Ireland's colorful, colorized past.
In this week's Roundup: The story of a man who volunteers his time to honor the dead and another about seeking to right a historic wrong and restore discarded headstones.
In this week's Roundup: An orphan heirloom rescuer, a woman is reunited with her sister after more than 50 years, the story of Representative Val Demings' great-great-grandmother, and much more.
I’m delighted to announce that the 221st grant has been awarded to Olivia Dorsey of Digital Black History. Grant funds will be used to help cover the costs of running the Digital Black History website.
In this week's Roundup: A heartfelt and thought-provoking poem touching past and future (recited by the author), RIP Irish sculptor Jeanne Rynhart, and more.
In this week's Roundup: The joys of physical books, letters from the 1918 flu epidemic, putting genealogical skills to use for COVID-19 contact tracing, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Joe Biden's roots, Michelle Obama's roots, and a colorized photo of Osturna, Slovakia from 1935
In this week's Roundup: The evolution of US girl names from 1880-2013, a rescue tale, tributes for fallen soldiers from past conflicts, and more.