Genealogy Roundup, June 3
In this week's Roundup: The last person to receive a Civil War-Era pension dies, an upcoming book to put on your radar, and 2020 in history.
In this week's Roundup: The last person to receive a Civil War-Era pension dies, an upcoming book to put on your radar, and 2020 in history.
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: A book recommendation genealogists may enjoy and two really daunting Army cases.
Ever wondered why no reward is seemingly too low for some cybercriminals to target? In the case of DNA test kits mailed to random strangers, the prize hackers had their eyes on were ten-dollar gift cards. Get the full story on this – and more – in this week's Roundup!
In this week's Roundup: generational photo recreations, celebrity roots, a milestone reached in Army repatriation cases, a story of Titanic survivors, and more...
In this week's Roundup: wanderlust, decorating with genealogy as the inspiration, and more...
In this week's Roundup: The smallest, oldest cemetery in Paris, upcoming genealogy reads, the remains of a recently identified missing soldier from WWII are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors, and much more . . .
In this week's Roundup: A beautiful, hand-sewn tribute to one woman's ancestry, a soldier is welcomed home 73 years after his death, two books to check out, an orphan heirloom rescue, good neighbors, a look inside New Zealand's Original 'Coffin Club', and lots more!
2017 marks the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, a conflict often neglected in favor of World War II, which is unfortunate given that WWII is, in some respects, the offspring of the earlier conflict. Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War is the ideal book to help rectify this balance.
In this week's Roundup: Get your heart warmed, reading about one bride's 'something blue'. Also: explore the 65 symbols on US military tombstones, check out Ancestry.com news, and more.