Genealogy Roundup, August 7
In this week's Roundup: 23andMe company news, contest winner discovers a war hero in the family, Mark Kelly's roots, and more!
Enough Already with the Twisted Attempts to Weaponize Kamala Harris’s Family Tree
Once when I was a youngster, I was playing dumb about something as kids sometimes will. My mother fixed me with a stare and said, "Megan, it's one thing to be ignorant, but it's another to be proud of it."
Genealogy Roundup, July 24
In this week's Roundup: claiming my tombstone, DNA test leads to Irish citizenship, artwork in Philadelphia tells the story of Jefferson's valet, and more!
Genealogy Roundup, July 17
In this week's Roundup: cultural bonds in rural California, stubborn myths busted, mysterious DNA matches, and more!
Genetic Genealogy’s First Decade: The Pioneering Days of 1999–2009
collecting DNA samples in Slovakia in 2004: AI-imagined (left) [...]
Genealogy Roundup, July 10
In this week's Roundup: identifying an ancestor's enslaver, service to maintain ancestors graves and more.
“No Man Left Behind”
"No Man Left Behind" is so much more than a slogan to me. For the past 25 years, I’ve been assisting the DPAA with the identification of soldiers...
Shiny Object Ancestors: The Ones We Can’t Resist
AI-generated image of the “shiny object ancestor” experience [...]
Genealogy Roundup, April 10
In this week's Roundup: trench art from WWI, a review of the new book The Unclaimed, interesting branch of my family tree, and more!
7 Things You Didn’t Know about Hakeem Jeffries’ Roots
America’s highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Hakeem [...]