Last month I had the opportunity to talk with the Irish Genealogical Society International’s Dave Miller, creator of the IGSI podcast. Dave interviewed Tom Rice and me about the upcoming IGSI webinar Challenges in Irish Family Research: Brick Wall Panel Discussion, which will be broadcast June 17. Tom and...

Blog Subscription News
Change happens! I have moved email subscriptions for my blog posts to MailChimp, leaving behind the outdated Feedburner platform. As part of this change I have added a convenient subscription form to the sidebar on the website. If you are already a subscriber, nothing has changed, and you do...

Calling all genealogical societies, libraries, archives, and museums—NGS SLAM! Idea Showcase
The National Genealogical Society is looking for submissions from providers of genealogical information for their SLAM! Showcase 24 May 2022. Here is the press release: FALLS CHURCH, VA, 12 JANUARY 2021— The National Genealogical Society (NGS) issued a call for submissions for the SLAM! Idea Showcase scheduled for May...

Virtual institutes 2020
The summer of 2020 has turned out to be different from what we envisioned, hasn’t it? When 2020 started, I was scheduled to present a pre-conference DNA workshop and a DNA talk at the Celtic Connections Conference (CCC) in Chicago at the end of July, then fly to England,...

Eight Greats on the 4th of July–Part 2
Since I include my husband’s family in the scope of my genealogy, I thought I’d write a second post about their whereabouts during the Revolutionary War in honor of the 4th of July. His great-grandparents were John Mackin (1856-1938), Dane County, Wisconsin, and Mitchell County, Iowa. John was the...
