Genealogy Roundup, December 26
In this week's Roundup: Gingerbread cookies so beautiful it's (almost) a shame to eat them and one woman shares the generation-spanning connection she discovered when reading her grandmother's immigration papers.
Seton Shields Genealogy Grant #208: Donna J. Weathers
My latest grant has been awarded to Donna J. Weathers. The grant funds will help to cover the costs of compiling and publishing digitized records of the men who served as Surfmen in the U.S. Lifesaving Service.
Genealogy Roundup, October 17
In this week's Roundup: A fun toy alert, a soldier lost in the Vietnam War to be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery, Warhol photography archives to be made publicly available, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, October 3
In this week's Roundup: Memorial service for Pvt. Willard Jenkins, who lost his life in WWII; clutter transformed in film, and more...
Genealogy Roundup, September 19
In this week's Roundup: A retiree is reunited with a scrapbook created by the mother he lost to death when he was six years old, research on the roots of Betty White and Rick Scott, and more...
Genealogy Roundup, September 5
In this week's Roundup: creating catalogs of ancestors' lives, genealogy tourism, a new resource coming for tracing Jewish genealogy, and much more.
Genealogy Roundup, August 22
In this week's Roundup: A mother and son separated by war are reunited after 68 years, life stories of veterans buried at Riverside National Cemetery researched and written by students, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, June 27
In this week's Roundup: MyHeritage Offers Free DNA Tests to Help Reunite Separated Migrant Children with their Parents
Genealogy Roundup, June 20
In this week's Roundup: About 500 descendants of slaves sold by Jesuit priests gather for unique reunion in Iberville Parish
Genealogy Roundup, June 6
In this week's Roundup: See some of the photographs that were chosen from the Library of Congress to tell the story of America (though many are more serious in nature, for giggles, we've shown the one of an exceptionally patient cat), find out what can go wrong when you write a novel about your family, and more...