My latest grant has been awarded to Oisín Breatnach. The grant funds will help to cover the costs of research, digitizing, processing of and archiving of information relating to the Irish between 1570 and 1920 from old documents in archives of the Basque country.
In this week's Roundup: How do you create a Jimmy Fallon?, The man who left behind 50,000 images of North American buildings taken over nearly twenty years and more than 100,000 miles, and more...
In this week's Roundup: Another Ellis Island counterpart emerging, this time in Rotterdam; Ancestry.com's new CEO, and Bruce Springsteen's Irish Roots
In this week's Roundup: generational photo recreations, celebrity roots, a milestone reached in Army repatriation cases, a story of Titanic survivors, and more...
In this week's Roundup: Europe's emigration museums, celebrity roots, a competition to design a commemorative medallion in honor of Sgt. Henry Johnson, and more.
In this week's Roundup: More fallen heroes identified and on their way home, celebrity roots, yoga in cemeteries, multinational reunions, and more …
In this week's Roundup: The story of Annie Moore, first to arrive at Ellis Island, being told in dance in New Orleans.
In this week's Roundup: On the 88th anniversary of his arrival in his adopted country, a World War II veteran shares the one thing he'd like every U.S. citizen to appreciate; another veteran is reunited with a memento after 73 years, and more.
In this week's Roundup: News from Ancestry.com and a fascinating story about Katy Perry's Irish great-great-grandmother.
Katy Perry describes herself as a “singer-songwriter masquerading as a pop star.” As one of the best-selling artists of all time with sold-out world tours, she’s nailing that charade, but the story of Hannah Mulhare, one of Katy's Irish immigrant ancestors, makes it clear that Katy is not the first in the family to pull off such a convincing deception.
