An Unlikely Neighbor
During those three years in our first house, a time when marital strain, illness and death colluded overhead, having the Greens close by became a peculiar comfort.
During those three years in our first house, a time when marital strain, illness and death colluded overhead, having the Greens close by became a peculiar comfort.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.08.2012
Martha's grandfather, Frank Kostyra, owned a tavern in Jersey City. On the 4th of July 1929, two boys stuck a piece of dynamite in the foundation of the tavern, causing an explosion. It's somewhat remarkable that the building is still a tavern today.
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Posted 05.02.2012
This article comes to us courtesy of California Home + Design. Danielle Nelson Mourning slipped into a thin white nightgown, dropped to her hands a...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.13.2012
It's been said that on St. Patrick's Day we're all a wee bit Irish, but here are a few celebrities who truly are, though they probably wouldn't be the first you'd guess.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.30.2012
Several years ago, I conducted extensive genealogical research into the heritage of Michelle Obama. A few of my discoveries -- particularly those per...
Posted 05.23.2012
Who do you think you are? That's the question that Lisa Kudrow has been helping celebrities answer with her show of the same name on tracing genealogy...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.04.2012
Among the half million African Americans who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration were a number of Michelle's relatives, and they hailed from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and the southern part of Illinois.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.03.2011
As a genealogist, I'm on the receiving end of lots of inquiries from journalists. Usually they're wondering about the roots of this or that famous pe...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 10.21.2011
This has been a peculiar week in the world of genealogy, ushering in unexpected changes in three online, family history destinations.
Rachael Freed | Posted 09.28.2011
For whatever reason, at a certain time in our lives we become aware of a deep yearning for our family roots. Preserving and passing on those roots of our history is the sacred act of legacy writing.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 08.14.2011
I couldn't help but think that Pink's baby Willow was waltzing into this world with a powerful gene pool. So I decided to look into it.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not sure whether he keeps coming back or was never gone, but what's certain is that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith will be coming into America's living...
Cheryl Wills | Posted 11.17.2011
It's called the U.S. Immigration Collection. Americans who are eager to do more than just connect the dots in their family's tree can listen online to invaluable oral histories of their ancestors.
Rachael Freed | Posted 11.17.2011
Legacy is a vital part of a life well-lived. Whether you travel by foot or by heart, honor the journey as an important part of your life and legacy.
Washington Post | Ian Shapira | Posted 05.25.2011
When CIA employees are slain in action, as happened in Afghanistan in December, when a suicide bomber killed seven officers and contractors, relatives...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 11.17.2011
If your family ancestry includes the last name Davis, Easley, Humphrey, Johnson, Jumper, Laws, McGruder, Morehead, Moten, Robinson, Shields, Thornton, Tinsley or Wade, then you may be related to Michelle Obama.
New York Times | MICHELLE SLATALLA | Posted 11.17.2011
I WOULD like to apologize to any neighbors who walked by my house recently and happened to see me scraping the roof of my husband's mouth with a cotto...
Pamela Kripke | Posted 05.22.2012