Genealogy Roundup, August 16
In this week's Roundup: The Nostalgia Machine, how a rare portrait of an enslaved child arrived at the Met, one of the world's largest family trees, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, August 9
In this week's Roundup: Obituary for a Quiet Life: "The quiet lives pass on soundlessly in the background. And yet those are the lives in our skin, guiding us from breakfast to bed." When life hands you 65 unexpected siblings, when it's handy to have an unusual name, and much more.
Genealogy Roundup, August 2
In this week's Roundup: China's largest genealogy collection, a soldier lost in the Korean War is identified, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, July 26
In this week's Roundup: The surgeon who fought to mend disfigured WWI soldiers, discovering a rogue in the family tree, and much more.
Genealogy Roundup, July 19
In this week's Roundup: The impact of AI on genealogical research, researching enslaved people in newspapers, and much more.
Genealogy Roundup, July 12
In this week's Roundup: Driving change at Colonial Williamsburg
Solving the Mystery of Arne Pettersen, the Last to Leave Ellis Island
What became of Arne Pettersen, the last man to depart from Ellis Island?
Genealogy Roundup, July 5
In this week's Roundup: A soldier lost in WWII accounted for and returning home to be interred; plus, remembering Alan Arkin.
Genealogy Roundup, June 28
In this week's Roundup: DNA of a Pompeii victim sequenced, a rare genetic phenomenon, good news for researching genealogy of Catholic Americans, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, June 21
In this week's Roundup: Exploring what life was like for ancestors, a new genealogy TV series on the way, the old myth of names being changed at Ellis Island, and much more.