Genealogy Roundup, February 15
In this week's Roundup: Genetic genealogy and law enforcement, reuniting mementos with their families, a wild research ride, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Genetic genealogy and law enforcement, reuniting mementos with their families, a wild research ride, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Donation of Irish-Jewish family records, a shout-out for Unclaimed Persons, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Recipe epitaphs that are "a tip of the hat to life’s simple joys," girls who met while sailing to the U.S. meet again 75 years later, great new genie tools to play with, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Musical show about Annie Moore, Flat Stanley Does His Roots, research tools, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A great new research tool plus how life stories of enslaved people became "crucial to a legal battle over a Louisiana petrochemical facility that could triple residents’ exposure to carcinogens."
In this week's Roundup: A generation of Europeans, adopted as children, is now returning to Sri Lanka to search for their birth mothers; finding lost military personnel in the ocean, free research tools for genealogists, and more.
In this week's Roundup: What bones tell a bioarchaeologist about human life spans in pre-modern times, our ancestors weren't that different from us, happy little search tools, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Things that never stop being weird no matter how long you've been a genealogist, 7 things you didn't know about Prince's roots, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Easter chapter to a (perhaps the original) "It's a Wonderful Life" tale; a member of the 490th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, 10th Air Force who was lost in WWII is now accounted for; and more.
In this week's Roundup: A project to digitize millions of rolls of microfilm containing billions of family history records from around the world is complete and a soldier declared MIA during the Korean War has been accounted for.