Genealogy Round Up, April 18
Genealogy and History Interviews and Lectures. How a genealogy project unintentionally produced an incest avoidance app
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Award
The grant will be used to have the 1953 Centennial edition of the Du Quoin Evening Call reprinted to celebrate the town's 100th anniversary.
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Board
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. announced today that Christopher “Kip” Forbes and Jeffrey Gural have joined its Board of Directors.
Smolenyak Classic: Finding Knute Rockne in the Ellis Island Database
The manifest that included Knute Rockne had been difficult to find. I decided to have a go at finding the record myself, and I discovered that he was indeed remarkably well-hidden in the database.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Girl Museum
Girl Museum is a completely virtual museum that focuses on research and exhibitions about girl culture from across time and space.
Genealogy Round Up, March 7
The first part of the Annie Moore movie, "From Cork to New York". A chance to help make history! "Revolutionary Voices": A Last Muster Film.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective
Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, spent ten years journeying through databases and museum holdings to find photos from the Revolutionary War Generation.
Genealogy Round Up, February 28
What do Kelly Clarkson and Christina Applegate have in common? Does Jon Stewart look like his great-grand-uncle?
Genealogy Round Up, February 21
The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was. Vice President Joe Biden to be honored in Irish America Hall of Fame.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Wikipedia Foundation
I hit it up for everything from 19th century politicians to obscure Ukrainian villages, so this month's grant goes to the Wikipedia Foundation in gratitude for a great resource that's often taken for granted.