ROOTS & BRANCHES

An upcoming invitation to speak at the monthly meeting of the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg on Oct. 15 (mark your calendars now!) on “Exploring Pennsylvania’s State Archives and Library” put me in the mood to wax a bit nostalgic on repository research. Ah, repository research: You know, going to a library, archives, society …

In between preparing for lectures and the occasional research-for-hire job I do, I’ve been managing to sneak in more time to look at many of my own personal lines—that is, when people aren’t asking me about them, that is. A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine Corinne Moretti Hauk saw an early 1900s …

Less than two years ago, well-known German genealogy researcher Andrea Bentschneider launched the German Genealogy Collective with the goal of matching up people with German-speaking ancestry to the presentations, virtual get-togethers and resources that might help them solve their family history brick walls. She recently has been promoting her series of what she calls “German …