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The following excerpt is from a short article titled Finding Fake Roots in the Gene Expressions column, written by Razib Khan for Discovery Magazine. You can see that he’s not impressed by the seeming oversimplification of genetic results used for Continue reading Fake Roots Through the Use of DNA?
The following is excerpted from an interesting article posted on the May 7, 2012 edition of Hollywood.com: The Social Network star, the daughter of legendary African-American producer Quincy Jones and Jewish actress Peggy Lipton, embarked on a journey to uncover Continue reading Rashida Jones Says ‘It’s a miracle I’m here’ About Finding That Her Latvian Family were Murdered in the Holocaust
The following article was written by my good friend, William Dollarhide. If you are a genealogist, you are probably an avid user of the federal censuses, 1790-1940. But even experienced census users may not know about some of the obscure Continue reading The Census Day
After operating GenealogyBlog.com for nearly 9 years, I finally got spammed bad enough to take our site down. We use WordPress to write the blog, and various plugin tools to catch the spam, and delete it – and overall, it’s Continue reading We Got Spammed
As I have written several times before, I now use a Flip-Pal mobile scanner for all my on-the-road scanning projects, as well as the scanning of any photos under 4×6 inches in size. I have had a personal unit about Continue reading More About the Flip-Pal mobile scanner & Flip-Pal Adds Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 to a New Creativity Suite 3 on DVD
Are macadamia nuts one of your favorite treats?? Did you know: The trees were brought to Hawaii in 1887….. from??? The Mauna Loa farm has 2500 acres with 250,000 trees. The trees grow and produce year round but only in Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………….. Week’s Peek
The following news release was received from Thomas MacEntee: Free Access Provided by Fold3 May 4, 2012– Austin, TX: The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) is proud to announce its recent participation in making the Sultana Disaster records available to Continue reading FGS Stern Fund Helps Make Sultana Disaster Records Available to the Genealogy Community
Map Guide to German Parish Registers: Kingdom of Bavaria II – Niederbayern II is the seventh of ten volumes covering Bavaria. This is also volume 20 of the now 41 total volumes in the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series. Continue reading Map Guide to German Parish Registers: Kingdom of Bavaria VII – Niederbayern II
Whose behind all that great genealogy programming currently available on television. Here is an article from the South Florida Times about once company make big contributions to the little screen. [Call we still call it the little screen when some Continue reading Pioneering company plays key role in genealogy
Germans were among the earliest colonist to the Americas. They are also one of the cultural groups who came in waves of mass migrations over the years. 1708 saw the beginnings of the first major wave of German immigration. German Continue reading German Immigration to America: The First Wave
“Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the twelfth such series from Professor Gates. This 10 part series featuring the individual genealogies began March 25 on Sunday nights. Now, there are only three episodes left. Like “Who Do Continue reading Only Three Episodes Left
The Hoosier state does not stand out in most people’s minds as an ethnically rich or diverse state. Yet, the reality is, depending on how far back you go, every state is a cultural melting pot with a rich history Continue reading Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience.
The following article was written by Bryan L. Mulcahy, Reference Librarian at the Fort Myers-Lee County Library, and was reprinted with his permission: How often have you encountered and individual or family in a census which looks like yours, but Continue reading A Bit About Nicknames
We’ve added two important features to the Family Roots Publishing Co. website. They are: An Advanced Search – Using the Advanced Search, you can now search the database by: Title Only Description Only Item # Only If you choose to Continue reading Family Roots Publishing Website Adds New Features
Dwight Radford’s new “The Journey Home Genealogy” Blog continues to grow with all kinds of Irish topics of interest to millions of Americans being posted on a daily basis. Since posting my intitial blog about the site, I’ve continued to Continue reading The Journey Home Genealogy Irish Blog Continues to Grow