ROOTS & BRANCHES

If you’re a week-in and week-out reader of “Roots & Branches,” you’ll remember the name Lisa Minardi. Minardi’s the human dynamo who has turned Historic Trappe and its Center for Pennsylvania German Studies into a major repository and events center in the borough of Trappe in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Minardi is the executive director of …

For a “Roots & Branches” column being published just before the current Federal income tax deadline of April 15, it seems appropriate to talk about some things I’ve learned about taxes, some of which relate to their use as genealogical records. Admittedly part of my rationale for writing the column is that in addition to …

Genealogy has been a fairly large part of my identity for the last 40 years, but I still think it’s interesting the responses I get when I introduce myself as having a business “doing genealogy; that is, family trees.” So, herewith are the top 10 replies I get to that introduction: 10. “Oh, it must …