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Genealogy Roundup, August 1

By |2018-08-01T10:52:13-04:00August 1st, 2018|Genealogy Roundup, History, Human Interest, Military|

In this week's Roundup: The variety of tools used to identify decades-old remains of soldiers unaccounted for, the remains of Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson have been officially identified, books that had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson found in a dumpster and returned, and more.

Seton Shields Genealogy Grant #206: Oisín Breatnach

By |2018-07-24T08:05:34-04:00July 24th, 2018|Grants|

My latest grant has been awarded to Oisín Breatnach. The grant funds will help to cover the costs of research, digitizing, processing of and archiving of information relating to the Irish between 1570 and 1920 from old documents in archives of the Basque country.

Genealogy Roundup, July 5

By |2018-07-05T11:01:20-04:00July 5th, 2018|DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Genealogy Roundup, Human Interest, Immigration, Military|

In this week's Roundup: Best genealogy ad ever, a mother/daughter reunion takes place sixty years after the daughter was told her mother was dead, welcome home and RIP to Sgt. John W. Hall, who gave his life in the Korean War, and more...

Genealogy Roundup, June 6

By |2018-06-06T11:51:38-04:00June 6th, 2018|DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Family History, Genealogy Roundup, History, Human Interest|

In this week's Roundup: See some of the photographs that were chosen from the Library of Congress to tell the story of America (though many are more serious in nature, for giggles, we've shown the one of an exceptionally patient cat), find out what can go wrong when you write a novel about your family, and more...

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