This article originally appeared here at 100 Years in America on April 27, 2008. I've reposted it here in honor of Geography Awareness Week. It is also one of my favorite contributions to the Carnival of Genealogy, whose participants (including...

This article originally appeared here at 100 Years in America on June 1, 2008. I've reposted it here in honor of Geography Awareness Week. It is also one of my favorite contributions to the Carnival of Genealogy, whose participants (including myself)...

In honor of Geography Awareness Week, I encourage you to make a visit to the series I posted last year at this time. I took a little visit (by way of online quizzes) to the parts of Eastern Europe that my 100 Years in America ancestors' hail from,...

When I first began my journey into the world of the family history blog I envisioned the fruition of something I had been hoping to see for a long time: the connection of my extended family. Reaching across various branches of my family tree, state and...

Though I'm busy taking care of my new baby, I couldn't resist taking the time to share the news about footnoteMaven's new baby: Shades of the Departed - The Magazine. If you are a fan of her Shades of the Departed or footnoteMaven blogs, or are...