Your Roots and Branches

Your Roots and Branches Nothing can be more rewarding - or frustrating - than trying to play sleuth on what any detective would consider a really cold case. Let us help!

Researching our ancestors - who they were, where they came from, what they did - is great fun and quite rewarding. Sometimes it answers questions, sometimes it simply raises more questions. But - what are you going to DO with the information you learn? The lessons of genealogy are huge - we feel a sense of pride learning about relatives we never knew, even if it's just that they got on a ship and

came to America, risking everything. The rest of the equation is how we pass on what we've learned to our children, the next generations. So how you have your new-found knowledge prepared makes all the difference. A pedigree chart is great, but if that's all you find that's really not much. But information and stories that are illustrated with pictures and maps are so much more likely to be read than pages and pages of print. How about your family story told through a favorite recipe? How about family photos, maps and pictures of ancestral villages illustrating a calendar, with key dates for several generations of ancestors? Contact us - we can make it happen!

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Nothing can be more rewarding - or frustrating - than trying to play sleuth on what any detective would consider a really cold case. Let us help!

Please. Reading about the past is much worse when the the present shows nothing has changed.
01/27/2023

Please. Reading about the past is much worse when the the present shows nothing has changed.

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This is a very real problem!
12/08/2022

This is a very real problem!

November 2 - All Souls Day - So this might be the way to get Aunt Mary to talk about her parents? Try it - it could work...
11/02/2022

November 2 - All Souls Day - So this might be the way to get Aunt Mary to talk about her parents? Try it - it could work!

What do you want your descendants to know about your ancestors? At some point, you will want to have written that narrat...
10/08/2022

What do you want your descendants to know about your ancestors? At some point, you will want to have written that narrative. Do it now!

We have a lot of resources and lists of things to do and think about when working on this important story. Write us!

It's not new to my friends that I love learning about my own family's history. Today is the 187th birthday of my Great-G...
09/08/2022

It's not new to my friends that I love learning about my own family's history. Today is the 187th birthday of my Great-Great Grandfather Johann Leonard Keller who came here in 1846 from Darmstadt Hesse when he was about 20 years old. He arrived in New York with no money to buy travel to his destination in Southern Indiana so he walked. Yes, walked.

This is so true, but to be accurate about this almost no specific address information exists on the 1840 Census. You can...
08/13/2022

This is so true, but to be accurate about this almost no specific address information exists on the 1840 Census. You can figure out the enumerator's route (sometimes), and see who the family's neighbors were, but that's about it -- until at least 1880. So don't feel too bad if you can't go back that far.

Dedicated to all family genealogists who have piles labeled "This is important - I'm just not sure why right now." Futur...
07/14/2022

Dedicated to all family genealogists who have piles labeled "This is important - I'm just not sure why right now." Future generations will be grateful!

The 1950 Federal Census will be formally released to the public in April. However, indexing all the information so that ...
03/29/2022

The 1950 Federal Census will be formally released to the public in April. However, indexing all the information so that we can all use it for research will take longer. If you were born between 1940 and 1950 this will likely be the first census in which you can see yourself listed. The National Archives has a great page on their website that details the questions asked on that census. I'm posting the link here. As I learn more about when various databases will have the material available, I will certainly pass it along!

As I've done genealogy work for clients whose ancestors are from this part of Europe/Asia I've really been drawn to the ...
02/24/2022

As I've done genealogy work for clients whose ancestors are from this part of Europe/Asia I've really been drawn to the culture of these people. There is no reason for this invasion other than Ukraine's vast natural resources, warm-water ports, and Russia's weak economy. This is beyond sad and will affect everyone all over the world.

April 2022 is the date when the 1950 Census will be released. Hooray! Census data is a hugely critical resource in learn...
01/02/2022

April 2022 is the date when the 1950 Census will be released. Hooray! Census data is a hugely critical resource in learning about our ancestors, but can also be challenging when we try to understand what they were saying about themselves when the census taker came calling. Betty White's passing reminded many of us of this priceless SNL skit in 2013 with Tina Fey as a census enumerator and Betty White as a challenging respondent.

A census taker (Tina Fey) faces a woman (Betty White) with confusing answers to her most basic questions. [Season 35, 2010] to SNL: https://goo....

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10/29/2021

Don’t forget gift certificates! We can create a certificate to announce your gift and then work with you to decide what you want to create!

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