In this week's Roundup: dream over Russian window art (stunning!), read the stories of some Missouri adoptees who were able to learn their biological parents' identities thanks to passage of a recent law, check out the world's tallest cemetery, and much more.
In this week's Roundup, get your funny bone tickled with an Ellis Island cartoon, explore a tattoo shop formerly frequented by medieval pilgrims (and still in the same business!), check out two family sagas you might enjoy reading, and more.
This week's Roundup brings us pictures from a unique and memorable honeymoon, a matching grant challenge to preserve WWI memorials, and an interview with Australian comedian, Nick Cody.
After his identity was confirmed through DNA analysis, a WWII pilot's remains were returned home to be laid to rest with full military honors.
This week's Roundup brings us the story of a female reporter who went undercover in 1921 to expose the immigration process, the man who walked 2,000km to trace his grandfather's escape from a Russian gulag, the rescue of a treasure trove of family history, and much, much more!
This week, we meet Annie Moore's Irish cousins, a spy, and the man who develops found film, check out news on next generation DNA Sequencing, see classic "then and now" New York streetscapes, and so much more!
The Phono Museum, John Kasich: A Carpatho-Rusyn Pennsylvanian, a look at one of the very few women to receive the Kearny Cross for bravery during the U.S. Civil War, heritage travel, and lots more in this week's Genealogy Roundup!
DNA testing helps two sisters find each other again, the last wish of a Marine who fell in action during WWII is granted, an opportunity to help name four sheep ambassadors at Colonial Williamsburg and more.
TLC's "Long Lost Family" to begin airing in March, an update on WWII vet Norwood Thomas reunion with his wartime girlfriend, an intriguing way to personalize your home's exterior, celebrity roots, and more!
I dug up over 1,300 pages of material on while researching Henry Johnson for the Army. Among the more interesting finds was this letter by Langston Hughes.
