In this week's Roundup, hear how one man's expertise and foresight was instrumental in saving treasured Ellis Island artifacts, check out an amazing pen pal relationship, listen in on a discussion about DNA testing, and more.
Best-Selling Author Lisa See offers valuable Chinese-American genealogy resource, the physicist building a time machine, Bradley Cooper's family history of cooking, and much more . . .
This quarter, I'm awarding two grants--one to Rich Custer to support his work preserving Carpatho-Rusyn records and the other to help defray the initial costs of a book series produced by the White Lake Area Historical Society that will showcase area families and notable people, places, and events.
As I packed up my old office to move to a new state, I thought about all the genealogical work I'd done there and whether I should leave a trace of myself behind.
Sharing my thoughts about an article by Shane Bauer entitled, "Your Family's Genealogical Records May Have Been Digitized by a Prisoner" . . .
In Search of Our Ancestors, a collection of true stories which offers an inspirational look at the rewards of family history, is available as an ebook on Amazon now!
J.K. Rowling's episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. Originally aired in the U.K., this episode shows the Harry Potter mastermind learning about her own story.
We can probably expect an interlude between the next seasons of Who Do You Think You Are? and Finding Your Roots, and the duration of that lull will hinge largely on how PBS chooses to balance and accommodate the sometimes competing goals of content accuracy and viewer demand.
186 grants in, we’ve reached the 15 year milestone, and are celebrating 15 years of supporting family history projects with genealogy grants.
Almost a century after their service, Sgt. Henry Johnson* and Sgt. William Shemin were finally awarded the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony for their heroics in World War I. As the genealogist who had the privilege of researching both of these Medal of Honor cases for the Army, I had the opportunity to seek out and steep myself in more than 1,300 pages of Sgt. Johnson's paper trail, so I'd like to clarify some misconceptions.
