A Family Tapestry

  Perhaps blogging has become passe in today's world, but I still follow several genealogy blogs. It's one way to keep up with what...

  What makes a person ask the question about their roots? What prompts someone to decide the answer will only come through a personal commit...

  We had an interesting conversation the other morning, the few of us who lingered after our genealogy society's special interest group ...

  The other day, a question came to mind: is genealogy an endurance sport? Setting aside the objection that genealogy could not possibly be ...

  The connections we can gain from DNA testing gift us with the ability to reach out to strangers and meet them as family. This weekend, I h...

  While "community" and "collaboration" may have been the keywords around which our local family history class is focus...

  After observing participants in online classes and during local genealogical society meetings online, I've noticed how lackluster the ...

  This weekend, I'm putting the final touches on a four-session genealogy course I'm teaching for a local continuing education progr...

  Are you a member of The Club? You know, the one that costs $5K per year for exclusive services for the " most passionate " of ge...

  Not that I'm experiencing time anxiety myself, but Time Anxiety  is a book I've wanted to read for the past, oh, thirty nine days....

  It has been a long five years since the pandemic caused our local society to abandon in-person meetings and exchange them for live online ...

  I can't say this statement is genetically verifiable, but it's obvious many humans have a "whodunit" drive embedded in t...

  For this month's goal, as laid out almost a year ago in my Twelve Most Wanted research plan , I had thought that surely there were no ...

  That may seem to be a silly question for a family history blog; of course it's genealogy that keeps us up far too late in the evening...

  At many local genealogical organizations, summertime is break time. Members are traveling, or spending time with family, or celebrating ho...

  Set on top of my husband's desk this weekend was a book I hadn't seen before: Community: the Structure of Belonging , by Peter Blo...

Every now and then, I'll hear talk about intergenerational wealth, those gifts passed from parent to child—or in some cases, passed on d...

  The other day, I did dog-sitting duties for my daughter's recently acquired puppy while she attended an out-of-town training. Her new ...

  Not all jokes are funny anymore. A while back, someone shared a joke with a group I was in. I didn't get it. Not because I lack a sens...

  It was almost exactly six years ago when I began sharing the story of a photograph I rescued from an antique shop up in Gold Country . Th...