Genealogy Roundup, August 28
In this week's Roundup: a heartwarming tale of an unexpected friendship, a fresh perspective on research, and more!
In this week's Roundup: a heartwarming tale of an unexpected friendship, a fresh perspective on research, and more!
In this week's Roundup: An island with juuuuust enough room for a single house, five WWII-era bombers found off Croatia, common sense about ancestors, and more.
In this week's Roundup: A soldier reported MIA in the Korean War accounted for plus taking baby steps on Mastodon as a potential backup or alternative to Twitter
In this week's Roundup: Two genetic genealogy reunion tales, an interview with the living son of a slave, a fun chat about genealogy, and more.
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: A chat about working with the military to identify those still unaccounted for from past conflicts, 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: A WWII soldier who was formerly buried as an Unknown Soldier is accounted for, remembering the first soldier I researched who was identified, and celebrating 50 years of genealogy.
In this week's Roundup: Remembering a soldier who took part in a WWII POW rescue mission described by Colin Powell as “the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies" and the story behind the photo he carried everywhere.
In this week's Roundup: A US Army Corporal lost in the Korean War accounted for and welcomed home, a dramatic multiracial love story in Lin-Manuel Miranda's family tree, and much more.