ROOTS & BRANCHES

Let no one think that digitization of historical newspapers is in any way abating. And leave it for folks in the Penn State area to be doing a project that has some cutting-edge aspects to it. The hot news about old news is that L. Suzanne Kellerman of Penn State Libraries has teamed up with …

Late last month brought an e-mail to my inbox with the screaming headline of “We Won Our Lawsuit!” The e-mail was from a group called “Reclaim the Records” and they were touting having won their fourth Freedom of Information lawsuit to gain free public access to various vital records in New York, in this case …

Centuries of emigration have planted Germans on every continent on earth. And most of those continents will be represented at the International German Genealogy Conference in Sacramento, Calif., from June 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The conference theme is “Strike It Rich! with Connections 2 Discoveries.” Hundreds of attendees have already registered for the …