James M. Beidler is an award-winning writer for his Roots & Branches column featured in the Altoona Mirror. He also is a freelance genealogy lecturer and researcher specializing in Pennsylvania ancestry, newspapers, and land records. View his upcoming speaking engagements.
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The Family Tree Historical Newspapers Guide, by James M. Beidler
James M. Beidler left a career as a newspaper copy editor in 1999 but never lost his zest for journalism and writing, which has culminated in the 2018 release of his book, The Family Tree Historical Newspapers Guide. The book profiles every way that newspapers can help your genealogy – obituaries are only the starting point! By using on- and offline resources, you’ll be able to put together biographies for ancestors one sentence at a time
by using all the newspaper assets at your disposal! More than a thousand of Beidler’s award-winning Roots & Branches weekly genealogy column have been published and he also has authored of The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide and Trace Your German Roots Online. Beidler is also a columnist for German Life magazine. He also works as an editor of research reports for Legacy Tree Genealogists, a leading paid research genealogy firm.
The Best of Roots & Branches
, Fifth Edition published July 2017, edited by Terri J. Bridgwater.
It contains a selection of columns from Beidler’s award-winning newspaper column (currently published in the Altoona Mirror), which is the only syndicated newspaper column on genealogy in Pennsylvania.
The book can be ordered online, or purchased directly from Jim when he speaks at a conference.