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

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

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,...

By Susan Weinberg - We recently met for our first Breaking Down Walls discussion. The purpose of this gathering was to look at some of...

By Kate Dietrick, Assistant Archivist - Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives In late February I happily welcomed the...

By Walter Elias - You discover an old postcard in the attic possibly written before WWII and sent from Europe. But it’s in Yiddish or...

By Susan Weinberg - One of the sites that often helps to crack open a genealogical puzzle is stevemorse.org. Steve Morse has a number of...