ROOTS & BRANCHES

It’s not too often—OK, well this is the first time!—that I’ve been able to give a “review” of a conference before the dates of that conference. This is the case because normally how are you going to review something that hasn’t happened, right? Well, I’m able to that with PaGE 2026—Pennsylvania’s Genealogy Event—because in what …

This week’s “Roots & Branches” column may take a little while to prove its relevance to genealogy, but bear with me. At least from the point I was say 10 years old (this would have been 1970, by the way), I was a big fan of all things horror, science fiction, suspense, etc. This interest …

Earlier this month Germanology Unlocked’s Katharine Schober returned to the webinar stage from her maternity leave with an excellent presentation on Archion.de, the Germany-based Protestant church records mega-website. Schober went over the basics of the site—including the fact that the digitized church registers on it are only browsable, not searchable—before getting to the exciting news …

In a “Roots & Branches” column some weeks ago, I noted a had “two dozen or so” direct-line ancestors who fought in the American Revolution.   When several Facebook Friends posted the names and dates of their Revolutionary War ancestors, I felt a little competitive and decided to list mine, too. At this point, I’m …

I’ve had a chance lately to revisit some of my personal genealogy lines in the last couple of months and while I haven’t found additional ancestors, I think I’m on the way to do so with the help of more records online and a new respect for some old methodologies. In both of the cases, …