Genealogy Roundup, January 4
In this week's Roundup: Death masks, finding family, how a research trip turned into a life mission, remembering Annie Moore, and so much more.
In this week's Roundup: Death masks, finding family, how a research trip turned into a life mission, remembering Annie Moore, and so much more.
In this week's Roundup: Ground left for genealogists to cover, updating a family history to include women in the genealogical records, 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: A lovely collection of family heirlooms
In this week's Roundup: An island with juuuuust enough room for a single house, five WWII-era bombers found off Croatia, common sense about ancestors, 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: DNA surprises, every Japanese American incarcerated during WWII named, getting more awe in your life, a census hero, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A tombstone which, according to the photographer has become "a local legend around Salt Lake City," and a soldier accounted for from the Korean War.
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: 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.