ROOTS & BRANCHES

Maybe this installment of “Roots & Branches” should be titled “Travels, continued,” but it’s not about my manic pursuit of fall foliage that took me to the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania as much as it is highlighting a couple of events at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for which I did or will …

I’ve been on record as saying that the first two weeks of October have more activities scheduled than any other time of the year, but this time around I think I even outdid myself! On Oct. 5, I managed to double-book myself with two events that Saturday, which thankfully were within walking distance of each …

Talk about “my cup runneth over.” Last week’s “Roots & Branches” gave some of the details on Hamburg, Germany–based Andrea Bentschneider’s new “German Genealogy Collective.” And, as promised, this week’s column will focus on another new service for those with Deutsch ancestry, this one called the “German Genealogy Headquarters: Discover the lives behind the names!” …

The last few months have been exciting ones in the German genealogy field. And I say that as your “Roots & Branches” columnist of more than a quarter century, who has every reason to be jaded about announcements promising the latest and greatest thing … but turning out to be “more sizzle than steak.” In …