Genealogy Roundup, April 13
In this week's Roundup: A special photo finds its way home 130+ years later, how many Americans imagine their family tree, and another snippet from the 1950 census.
In this week's Roundup: A special photo finds its way home 130+ years later, how many Americans imagine their family tree, and another snippet from the 1950 census.
In this week's Roundup: Lots of news and tidbits from the 1950 Census, celebrating 23 years as a professional genealogist, and more.
In this week's Roundup: An excellent video about the Holodomor in the Ukraine in the 1930s, an 8-year-old who crossed the Atlantic alone, the wallpaper which one woman said serves as this reminder for her, "We had survived the unsurvivable time and time again; cultivating hope wasn’t frivolous, it was essential," a living heirloom story, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A way that genealogists can help Ukraine
In this week's Roundup: A family homestead of six generations and counting and a historical novel about a "brilliant and trailblazing genius and the price she paid to advance the frontiers of science."
In this week's Roundup: A letter written during WWII delivered 76 years later; the touching, bittersweet story behind a pair of tombstones in Tampa; an orphan heirloom rescue, and much more.
In this week's Roundup: News on the 1950 census release, offering enhanced digital access and an opportunity for the public to collaborate.
In this week's Roundup: An amazing real-life story with a tie-in to It's A Wonderful Life, a touching tribute to grandparents, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A look into the scrapbook kept by long-dead mother of American GI who endured near-starvation in WWII POW camp - a scrapbook that was nearly lost in an estate sale, looking back at when the seeds of genealogy were planted, and more.
In this week's Roundup: Navigating unexpected genealogical finds, the mystery of a lost tombstone solved, a soldier accounted for from WWII and more.