Genealogy Round Up, May 9
HBO's Family Tree First of Four Genealogy Series to Air in U.S. Celebrity Roots - Barack Obama, Annie Moore, Top Chef, USS Monitor and others.
Genealogy Round Up, April 25
Seton Shields Genealogical Research Grants - Apply for a Grant. Family Tree on HBO Starts May 12th!
Genealogy Round Up, April 18
Genealogy and History Interviews and Lectures. How a genealogy project unintentionally produced an incest avoidance app
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Award
The grant will be used to have the 1953 Centennial edition of the Du Quoin Evening Call reprinted to celebrate the town's 100th anniversary.
Smolenyak Classic: Finding Knute Rockne in the Ellis Island Database
The manifest that included Knute Rockne had been difficult to find. I decided to have a go at finding the record myself, and I discovered that he was indeed remarkably well-hidden in the database.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Girl Museum
Girl Museum is a completely virtual museum that focuses on research and exhibitions about girl culture from across time and space.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective
Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, spent ten years journeying through databases and museum holdings to find photos from the Revolutionary War Generation.
Genealogy Round Up, February 21
The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was. Vice President Joe Biden to be honored in Irish America Hall of Fame.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Wikipedia Foundation
I hit it up for everything from 19th century politicians to obscure Ukrainian villages, so this month's grant goes to the Wikipedia Foundation in gratitude for a great resource that's often taken for granted.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
I hold a special place in my heart for Ellis Island, so when it was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy, it seemed a fitting time to make a donation to the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation