Genealogy on Deadline: Newspapers Bring Ancestors to Life

By Jeanne Rollberg In 2016, we have many creative ways to keep images and voices of loved ones alive through social media, YouTube, blogs and many other options. In our ancestors’ eras, the primary way communities were held together and learned about each other was through daily and weekly newspapers. These historic newspapers hold the key…

Christmas past in England

Christmas Past in England

 By Anne Sherman Christmas is widely believed to have originally been a mid-winter festival celebrating the Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year), and as such was celebrated at different times of the year around the world.  It was the Christians who changed it to a religious festival to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the…

Is Your Family’s Heritage Native American? Native American Research Resources

By Jeanne Rollberg When the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation Lakota and other Native Americans protested the Dakota Access Pipeline project on the basis that it could possibly jeopardize their water supply, it reminded America and the world of the primacy of caring for land and water to Native Americans historically. They called themselves the “water…