ROOTS & BRANCHES

One of the many changes to my life in this last Pandemic year has been trading the traveling life—going to in-person genealogy conferences as aa guest lecturer and often as vendor of my book—for participating in virtual events instead. A year on into this shift, I’m seeing both trends to this online experience as well …

Having been raised a “church person” in a mainstream Protestant congregations in the mid-20th century, I don’t need convincing that religious beliefs can be crucial to an individual’s sense of community. So learning about an upcoming online program from the Pennsylvania State Archives titled “Preserving Your Congregation’s History,” to be held from noon to 1:30 …

I’ll freely admit there are some “do as I say not as I do” aspects to what I preach about genealogy. I’m very much a backer of what some call “whole-family genealogy,” meaning that you don’t just identify your own direct-line ancestry but also delve into collateral relatives. There are a number of reasons for …

So, who has some time to hear your “Roots & Branches” columnist vent a little bit? Thanks for that hearty response of “yes,” readers, so here goes. I spend more of my life on Facebook than I probably should admit—sure, there are some business reasons for that, but a lot of it has been allowing …