ROOTS & BRANCHES

It began with a Friend request on Facebook that I almost deleted since I thought it might be one of the increasingly annoying situations in which someone’s account has been kidnapped by someone else.I recognized Laura Muha’s name from having worked with her a few decades ago at what was then the newspaper in Harrisburg …

There are some programs of which genealogists never tire.Presentations on Irish research are one of those “evergreens,” probably because there are so many people with ancestry from Ireland—estimated at more than 30 million people in America today!With that in mind, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania’s Winter Seminar titled “Records and Background on Researching Irish and Scots-Irish” …

I’ve crossed paths with Kerry Scott, who resides in New Mexico but still has a portion of her heart squarely in the Midwest, a number of times over the years.She was one of my editors at Family Tree Magazine for a brief time, but I’ll always remember her for turning me on to what was …