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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Hiding the Past–a Novel about Genealogy–Is My First Ebook Purchase
Here is the summary provided by Goodreads about the new novel, Hiding the Past, by Nathan Dylan Goodwin: Peter Coldrick had no past; that was the conclusion drawn by years of personal and professional research. Then he employed the services of one Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist – a stubborn, determined man who uses whatever means
Read on »WRHS Spring Seminar: Thomas Jones on Establishing Genealogical Proof
Most of us have an ancestor who, for various reasons, is difficult to “prove.” Such a case can be about a person for whom key records are missing or were never created, or it may involve several people in the same locality with identical names and similar ages. At one time, genealogists borrowed the concept
Read on »The German Research Companion
I have acquired a useful book on genealogical research for my personal library: The German Research Companion, by Shirley J. Reimer, Roger P. Minert, and Jennifer A. Anderson. This third edition, published by Lorelei Press, contains 706 pages, and includes basic and advanced material about doing research on German ancestors both in the United States
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