InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·11h agoShe’s Pro-Life Until the Baby Might Grow Up With an AccentA coworker cornered me in that particular teacher-lounge way, where you’re reheating leftovers and someone decides this is the moment for a…
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·1d agoI Built a Website for Dead People, and My Bounce Rate Wants to Know Why They Never StayFamily history and local history deserve a front porch. Here’s how I tried to build one.
Elena Salaks·2d agoCulture is more than ancestryReflections on heritage, assimilation, and the traditions we inherit, preserve, and create.
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·4d agoThe Most Useful Records in My Family Tree Are Dead QuietHalloween, All Saints’ Day, and the Day of the Dead all point at the same place, and genealogists were hanging out there long before the…
Avianna Lemonier·Oct 28It’s a beautiful thing to look in the mirror and see your ancestors looking back at you.
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·Oct 26How to Interview Your Relatives at Thanksgiving Without Starting a Feud (Unless the Feud Is…A field guide to getting family stories out of the people at your table, between the turkey and the pie, without it turning into an…A response icon1A response icon1
InThe Idea of RealitybyM. Nielsen·Oct 25If Someone Engineered Our Ancestors, Would Their Signature Still Be in Our DNA?Could the human genome reveal traces of deliberate intervention in our distant past or has deep time erased them completely?
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·Oct 24Take a Notebook and a Snack to the Cemetery: How a Headstone Can Break Your Family Tree’s Brick…It’s Halloween week, which means for once everyone wants to hear about graveyards. Here’s how to turn a spooky walk into the best genealogy…
Parish & Stone·Oct 24How to Read a 19th-Century Polish Birth Record (Even If You Don’t Speak Polish)The records follow a fixed pattern. Once you know it, a few dozen words get you most of the way.
Kali Varghese·Oct 23Full Moon in Taurus.Travelling Yogi Scotland Special. When I die, bury me low Where I can hear the bonny Tweed flow.
