Everything’s Relative: The Truth is Out There
Susan Wenner Jackson
August 20, 2008
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Do you have Unidentified Family Roots? You don’t have to cope alone.
Ethnic American Pride
Susan Wenner Jackson
August 20, 2008
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Americans of native, African and Chinese descent were once negatively stereotyped and discriminated against because of their ethnicity. Now pride is beginning to replace prejudice—at least for some ethnic Americans. The number of people who called themselves Native Americans in the 2000 US Census more than doubled from a…
Local Records Digitized Online
Susan Wenner Jackson
August 20, 2008
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Photos and records from regional and state archives are making their way to the Web.
Putting the Gene in Genealogy
Susan Wenner Jackson
August 20, 2008
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Genes may enable you to trace your family tree back not merely a few generations but hundreds, even thousands of years.
Outdated Disease Names: Identify the Illnesses That Affected Your Ancestors
Susan Wenner Jackson
August 20, 2008
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Fatty liver? Brain fever? If archaic medical terms are make your head spin, turn to this list of health hazards your ancestors may have faced.
Appalachian Toolkit
Susan Wenner Jackson
August 20, 2008
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Northeastern Mississippi Evans Memorial Library www.tombigbee.lib.ms.us Lee County Library www.li.lib.ms.us Mississippi Department www.mdah.state.ms.us University of Southern Mississippi McCain Library and Archives www.lib.usm.edu/~archives Northern Alabama Alabama Department of Archives & History www.archives.state.al.us…
Trail To Your Roots
Susan Wenner Jackson
December 1, 2003
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Set off one the path to family discovery with our road map to research in Appalachia.
Ellis Island Searches Made Simple — Again
Susan Wenner Jackson
February 1, 2003
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JewishGen and the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation team up to provide a permanent home for Morse’s search tools.
Burke’s Beefs Up Content
Susan Wenner Jackson
February 1, 2003
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Burke’s Peerage adds 1,600 records of American families with British heritage.
A Home for “Home Children”
Susan Wenner Jackson
December 1, 2002
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The Canadian Centre for Home Children is attempting to reconnect former home children and their descendants with their lost relatives through a new online database.