Genealogy Roundup, October 19
In this week's Roundup: Musical show about Annie Moore, Flat Stanley Does His Roots, research tools, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, September 21
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."
Genealogy Roundup, September 14
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.
Genealogy Roundup, August 17
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.
Genealogy Roundup, June 8
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.
Genealogy Roundup, April 20
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.
Genealogy Roundup, September 22
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.
Genealogy Roundup, May 19
In this week's Roundup: News for Black people with Sierra Leone roots, Paul McCartney's magic piano, Stephen Colbert's roots, and much more!
Genealogy Roundup, May 12
In this week's Roundup: Tips for using tech to capture your family history, census news, remembering a gut-wrenching genealogical discovery, and more.
Finding Barry Manilow’s Mysterious Grandfather
As an Irish American fanilow, I wanted to know which town or city could lay claim to him (shout-out to Limerick!), but that's not where the real story was...