If you're heading off on vacation soon, I've heard that my book about Annie Moore of Ellis Island makes great reading for planes or beaches (hint, hint 😉) #Genealogy store.bookbaby.com/book/the-que...
Megan Smolenyak
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Lifelong genealogist & stubborn solver of history mysteries. Don't try to hide from me. I *will* find you. megansmolenyak.com #genealogy #history #democracy
morning walk fountain in pond with palm trees and uplit clouds in the distance with and a family of ducks in the lower left
The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
Love it when people appreciate the history of their homes! #genealogy people.com/homeowner-tu...
Buyer of 160-Year-Old Home Sets Out to Uncover the Stories of Every Family Who Lived There (Exclusive)
After restoring her historic waterfront home, Lauren began tracking down descendants of former owners and uncovering stories that had been forgotten for generations.
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It's not your imagination. Genealogists aren't the only ones struggling to get records that used to be fairly easy to obtain from the federal government . #genealogy link.propublica.net/view/5f0a06b...
“They just let the whole Privacy team go,” a now-former FOIA specialist at OPM told me by email in February 2025, referring to public records office staff. The specialist was cut the next day.
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In this week’s roundup, roots tourism continues to grow worldwide, a genealogy company faces financial challenges, AI helps reconnect a long-lost family, and more! megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-ro...
Genealogy Roundup, July 29 - Megan Smolenyak
In this week’s roundup, roots tourism continues to grow worldwide, a genealogy company faces financial challenges, AI helps reconnect a long-lost family, and more!
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Genealogy taught me in a very real and personal way how much more common childhood death in the US was not very long ago. And yet it's long enough that few Americans alive today have any memory of it. So people take the insane successes of vaccines, antibiotics, and prenatal care for granted.
Some of us have been doing it for decades, but roots travel truly is a global phenomenon now. #Genealogy Japanese descendants drive rise in roots tourism japantoday.com/category/nat...
Japanese descendants drive rise in roots tourism
Holding the passenger record documenting his 97-year-old father's voyage from Japan to Brazil nearly a century ago, Sergio Kohatsu uncovered details of a journey that had long remained a mystery. Koha...
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They oversell AI's role in this, but still a cool reunion story. #genealogy www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I thought, I’ve tried everything else, why not give AI a shot?’: the long-lost family reunited by ChatGPT
Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was haunted by the story of a half-brother given away before she was born. How did a chat...
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Hurrah! You can now edit the description field when you add a record to an Ancestry tree. It makes the process much more streamlined - you no longer have to add the event and then go into the profile to make your notes. 👍 Double thumbs up 👍 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
May be of interest to those curious about how inherited family trauma can shape who we are. Interview with Mark Wolynn, author of "It Didn't Start with You." #genealogy www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHuW...
How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are (& How to End the Cycle) w/ Therapy Expert Mark Wolynn
YouTube video by Library Speakers Consortium
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In this week’s roundup, the future of genetic genealogy, a welcome home for a WWII hero, a journey from America to Israel, a threat to historic records, and more! megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-ro...
Genealogy Roundup, July 22 - Megan Smolenyak
In this week’s roundup, the future of genetic genealogy, a welcome home for a WWII hero, a journey from America to Israel, a threat to historic records, and more!
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For genetic #genealogy geeks who want a peek at the future - especially for dealing with endogamy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItp...
Further Adventures in Genealogical Bioinformatics: What’s Next? by Arun Konanur
YouTube video by GFO - Genealogical Forum of Oregon
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Welcome home, CPL Robert Clark Pierce. Honored to have researched your family (2017). Closest relatives were 1C1R! #Hero #WWII #forensicgenealogy
