ROOTS & BRANCHES

You know you’re due for another one of those feelings of “how long you’ve been doing this” when seeing two articles about “crowd-sourced” indexing appear in one edition of the Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter hits you with a wave of nostalgia. That’s because I remember genealogy indexing before crowd sourcing. Before computers, even. I remember …

OK, so I’ll admit that I sometimes get weary of the seemingly infinite designations such as French Fries Day or Quilt Week or Fruit Fly Awareness Month. Now, no offense is intended for the many more serious designations, and I do have to say that a recent electronic newsletter from the folks at Just a …

The global corporate genealogy wars became quite interesting earlier this month. MyHeritage, the Israel-based subscription site whose marquee items are its large number of worldwide family trees posts by users and its various search trademarks, bought Millennia Corporation, the makers of the popular Legacy Family Tree genealogy desktop software and well-attended genealogy webinar platform, Legacy …

As I write this, the first International German Genealogy Conference has just finished its run near Minneapolis. As you read it, the conference still will be a warm memory in the hearts of its nearly 700 participants, who came from four continents to attend the initial get-together. The conference was the first big project to …