Every genealogist has some kind of specialty. It might be Civil War history, Eastern European ancestry, or even DNA. I’ve met a lot of fellow genealogists during my 30 years of researching my family history. But meeting Nathan Dylan Goodwin at RootsTech a few years ago felt like an entirely different thing. Nathan had broken into the…
NERGC 2019 officially starts today and as I sit sipping my coffee in the lobby waiting for the first session to begin, there is a real buzz going on all around me. There are many first-timers here who have that gleam in their eye of a genealogy kid in a proverbial candy store. NERGC promises…
You’ve seen it in my previous posts…I love it when genealogy and technology comes together. So, I was very happy to see that one of my favorite genealogy conferences, New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC) had promised a conference app for NERGC 2019 which is taking place in Manchester, New Hampshire this week. I think…
Do you have Irish ancestors in your tree? If you do, you know how challenging Irish research can be. Professional genealogist Donna Moughty specializes in Irish research. In fact, I hired her myself about a year ago through Genealogy.Coach to help me navigate a new Irish branch of my family tree that I didn’t know…
I met Melanie McComb for the first time at RootsTech2018. She and I were both RootsTech Ambassadors. We hung out in the Media Hub, talking genealogy and blogging. We shared some research interests in Connecticut and Massachusetts. I was impressed with her vision and goals for her genealogy career – many of those goals she…
Mary Tedesco Can you feel the excitement? Names like MacEntee, Cooke, Alzo, Taylor, Russell, Berry, Tedesco. These are just a few of the current genealogy rock stars. Would I sleep out on a sidewalk with a wrist band for tickets to see them? I plead the fifth on that. But when I come to a…