ROOTS & BRANCHES

When I last wrote a “Roots & Branches” column about this “core collection” of German genealogy resources, I used the word “titan” for Roger P. Minert in a nod to his lifetime of work adding to the field. What I realized now, with at least a half a dozen or so installments to go in …

Michael John Neill and I met some years ago when we were both serving on the board of the now-defunct Federation of Genealogical Societies, the defunctness of which should be a reflection of neither of us. We became Facebook Friends and seem to have a similar sense of humor and I guess because I hit …

As “Roots & Branches” has taken a sporadic look at what to include in a “core collection” of German genealogy resources, there’s one author I’ve been dying to include. And that would be Henry Z “Hank” Jones, the child actor who got interested in genealogy at the age of 8 and turned it into a …

One of my current genealogy lecture offerings is titled “Online German Church Registers, Duplicates and Substitutes.” The presentation is equal parts giving a rundown the burgeoning number of German church records that can be found on the internet and delineating the different iterations of those records and why that matters. It’s that latter delineation—which applies …