ROOTS & BRANCHES

The Ohio Genealogical Society’s conference earlier this month was a reminder that great in-person family history experiences do exist. As I often do with a column such as this, I being with the disclaimer: I’ve been a speaker at the spring OGS conference for more than a dozen years now and find the people who …

What was once proven and then unproven—is now proven again! I’ve corresponded with and written a couple of columns over the years about Kathy Williams’s attempt to restore the patriotic dignity of John Peter Weaverling in the Revolutionary War. The story in brief is this: Weaverling had fought in the American Revolution and was considered …

It’s either my blessing or my curse—or probably a bit of both!—that for reasons unknown to me that some of the genealogy topics to which I’m most attracted as a researcher are ones that don’t resonate as deeply with other family historians. Take historical newspapers. Oh, sure, every genealogist uses them now that so many …