ROOTS & BRANCHES

Your “Roots & Branches” columnist may be finished promoting PaGE but he’s not done with genealogy conferences in general. That’s because there’s a major hybrid event in a month and half that is a great opportunity. It’s the second annual East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference from Oct. 6–8, to be held in person at the …

Even the most fervent readers of “Roots & Branches” might be tired of hearing about Pennsylvania’s Genealogy Event or PaGE, the all-virtual event that concluded (sort of—see later in the column!) on Aug. 12. Well, there’s still more to tell so I hope you’ll bear with me as I report a bit on how PaGE …

Some years ago the church to which I belonged went through a time of reflection, and the interim minister who led that effort often used as a catch phrase, “Speak Your Truth Without Blame or Judgment.” As I contemplated the concluding keynote I was to present this weekend to “Pennsylvania’s Genealogy Event” or PaGE, the …

It was billed as a gathering of cousins, but not all cousins through the same ancestry.That’s because the nexus was Cindy Cruz from Kansas, who was visiting Pennsylvania to be part of the 300th anniversary of the Tulpehocken settlement in what’s today Berks and Lebanon counties, and her relationships to other people with whom she’d …