ROOTS & BRANCHES

I’ve previously profiled in “Roots & Branches” the efforts of my distant cousin Pernell Staudt to get a handle on the ancestry of one of our mutual ancestors, Anna Margaretha Gräter Lieb Staudt.I’m descended through her first husband Hans Michael Lieb and Pernell through her second husband Matthias Staudt, and was dazzled to find out …

I did a webinar for the German Interest Group of the Eastside Genealogical Society in Washington state last year, which Julia Westerberg watched and as often happens with virtual speaking gigs, she hit me up with a question after the fact. “In a 1871 New York City marriage license, the bride to be states she …

As I close in on a quarter of a century of writing “Roots & Branches” for various newspapers and my own blog, I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I’ve strayed into political territory … and this column won’t add to that count. I will occasionally say, both in my role …

Some recent nice weather spurred me to visit one of my favorite places, the Historical Old Graveyard of Bern Reformed United Church of Christ in Berks County.Regular “Roots & Branches” readers will recall that last fall correspondence with my distant cousin Pernell Staudt led me to conclude that despite having trod through this burial grounds …