Genealogy Roundup, November 7
In this week's Roundup: Veterans Day film coming up on HBO; the remains of a soldier lost in WWII accounted for and returned home for interment
Genealogy Roundup, October 31
In this week's Roundup: The kind of surprises you might encounter when you DNA test, a fun toy alert, and the funeral announcement for a U.S. serviceman accounted for from the Korean War.
Genealogy Roundup, October 10
In this week's Roundup: How a widow discovered where her grandfather was buried, thoughts about the Ancestry-Spotify pairing, 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...
Seton Shields Genealogy Grant #207: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
I am excited to award my latest grant in support of the Statue of Liberty Museum that's being constructed by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.
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 15
In this week's Roundup: Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson's daughter receives a memento of her late father, a crack squad of librarians, two sons receive their missing father's Korean War dog tag, and much more...
Genealogy Roundup, August 8
In this week's Roundup: A reunion of descendants of a man credited with saving 28 lives along the Niagara River, how the Defense Department identifies remains of soldiers lost in past wars, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, August 1
In this week's Roundup: The variety of tools used to identify decades-old remains of soldiers unaccounted for, the remains of Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson have been officially identified, books that had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson found in a dumpster and returned, and more.
Genealogy Roundup, July 25
In this week's Roundup: A soldier killed in World War II is returned home for burial nearly 74 years after his death, an exciting new project from Reclaim the Records, DNA braids, and more.