ROOTS & BRANCHES

When I finished chairing the 2021 International German Genealogy Partnership’s online conference—a wildly successful event that literally “brought back from the dead” an event originally scheduled as an in-person get-together before COVID-19 hit—I was left with a sense of “what’s next?” in my professional life. Little did I know that Kathryn Donahue, then Board secretary …

Genealogy is first and foremost a lot of names and dates. But if you start taking your immediate family history to the next level, right behind those names and dates are a lot of “stuff.” Stuff like family Bibles. Stuff like furniture. Stuff like heirloom antiques. Stuff like baptismal certificates. Stuff like ancestral clothing. Stuff …

I recently caught up with a fascinating book titled Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, which was written a couple of years ago by Nicole Eustace, a history professor at New York University. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and profiles an episode in 1722 when a Native …

There are many opportunities for genealogists to get together either in person or virtually. There’s mammoth RootsTech in Salt Lake City, the National Genealogical Society’s rotating annual conference, regional get-togethers such as the one sponsored by the Ohio Genealogical Society, and host of other smaller occasions. But there have been precious few statewide Pennsylvania get-togethers …