Last evening, I attended a session featuring Jonathan, Faye, and Jesse Kellerman at the opening event of the Book Fair Month at the Mandel Jewish Community Center in Beachwood. The event required me to pay a fee of $20 as a JCC non-member for the one-hour discussion by the three Kellermans about their books and
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Ready, Set, Go: Researching Nordic Roots
I am finishing up my PowerPoint presentation on “Our Nordic Families: How to Research Your Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish Families.” I will be presenting it at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland on Saturday, November 1, starting at noon. To register, go here: http://www.wrhs.org/upcoming-event/our-nordic-families/, If you have questions, feel free to contact me by
Read on »“It Was Like Coming Home,” Says Michaela Pereira in CNN Roots Series
Just today (17 Oct 2014) I learned that the TV network CNN has been running a series this past week of short family history reports about its on-camera personalities. Here is how CNN described the programs: CNN HOSTS JOURNEY TO FIND THEIR “ROOTS” “ROOTS: OUR JOURNEYS HOME” kicks off Sunday, October 12th, with a two-hour
Read on »For Genealogy Presentations, Turn on Closed Captioning for YouTube Videos
Last evening, I presented a talk, “Digging for Data on Your WWI and WWII Ancestors,” at the October meeting of the Cuyahoga West Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, at the Westlake Porter Library. As part of my presentation, I decided to present a YouTube video on “Veterans Personnel Records at the National Archives, St. Louis.” When
Read on »Videos Explain DNA and Genetic Genealogy
Videos are available from the Institute for Genetic Genealogy’s International Genetic Genealogy Conference held August 15, 16 and 17, 2014, in Washington D.C. Attendees were emailed links to access all the presentations online, but you can purchase access to the entire package of 27 presentations for $50 and individual videos for $4. The organizers have stated
Read on »Researching Nordic Roots, Coming to WRHS on Nov. 1
I am distributing the following announcement of a class I will be teaching at WRHS on November 1: “Our Nordic Families: How to Research Your Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish Families,” will be presented by Wally Huskonen, member of the Genealogical Committee, on Saturday, November 1, 2014. He has researched his Finnish ancestry for nearly
Read on »How to Access Cuyahoga County Historical Marriage Indexes & Records Online
NOTE: The following information was orginally posted by me on another blog I have created — NEOhio Genealogy Blog — on 13 JANUARY 2012. I am repeating it here with my current email address. Many of us with research interests in North East Ohio have utilized the Cuyahoga County Historical Marriage Index mounted on a database server
Read on »Genealogy Gems from Allen County Library
A free newsletter for genealogists and family historians is published monthly by the staff in the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Called appropriately enough, Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library, it is sent out by email on a monthly basis. Curiously, its publishing date is the last
Read on »Check Out This Genealogy Programming for TV
You probably know that in recent years there have been numerous programs on television about genealogical and family history research. The other day, I did a Google search for “genealogy on tv” and was rewarded with a surprisingly large number of “hits.” Many involved “Who Do You Think You Are?” the series that recently concluded
Read on »Some Famous Finnish-Americans
When I was preparing the post earlier today about FinnFest USA 2015 coming to Buffalo, NY (go to http://www.collectingancestors.com/2014/08/21/welcome-news-about-finnfest-2015-it-will-be-in-buffalo/), I ran across the following List of Nine Finnish Americans: http://cassavafilms.com/list-of-9/nine-famous-finnish-americans. It was posted a year ago by Mark Tapio Kines, head of Cassava Films, an independent film production company. In his introduction, Mark says, “The Finns are
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