When my father died, I was the first one to tackle his office. My father loved information. If something interested him, it ended up in a...

Over recent weeks, I’ve watched the unfolding events in Ukraine with horror. I traveled there in 2011 to the town that my maternal...

As genealogists we uncover our family stories. An important part of this process is to retell and commemorate that history. A recent...

One of the areas of genealogy that attracts many people is DNA. While I am deep down the rabbit hole of genealogy research, I hesitated...

Galveston Port 1912 This article was previously published in edited form in JHSUM Fall 2021 newsletter Between 1899 and 1914, 1.7 million...

On the changing nature of given names in an immigrant population I love solving puzzles. I often have a “spidey sense” about the answer...

In our prior article we introduced you to the Industrial Removal Office that aided Jewish immigrants in traveling to the interior of the...

I write you per your request to let you know how I am doing. . . I like the city very much. It reminds me very much of my old home in...

I was first drawn into genealogy when the immigration records went on-line. There was something about imagining that journey that...

From the JewishGen newsletter: Most of us will be spending more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage you to use some...

Dan Kastrul’s recent presentation focused on concrete steps people could take to help make more sense of their DNA matches. He...

by Susan Weinberg I’ve been doing talks around the country on immigration history, weaving in video clips from my interviews with Jewish...

by Susan Weinberg One of the things that intrigues me about genealogy are the little glimpses of history. There are so many things we...

by Susan Weinberg “I often get thrown out of archives and museums at closing time,” I remarked. I was at the local Family History Library...

by Jody Gorran 2019 marks the 100% anniversary of the forgotten 1919 pogroms in the Ukraine. This series of pogroms from 1917-1921 is...

by Susan Weinberg I sometimes wish I had a bigger family. Now that is not because I am especially family-centered, but as a genealogist I...

Do you have family members who may have fought in the Civil War? Recently I heard from the Shapell Manuscript Foundation about their...

by Sally Abrams We told her a bit about ourselves, then moved to the thing Jean most wanted to know. What was he like, the man who had...

This post is reproduced from the newsletter of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, written by Susan Weinberg - The...

Many of us are affected by Ancestry.com discontinuing support of Family Tree Maker software. Read about Software MacKiev and RootsMagic,...