Episodes

Are you familiar with Genealogy Adventures? You should be. They are two cousins (both cousins of mine, actually) who interview different guests about different topics on a weekly basis. This is the audio of our Sunday, October 13th interview about Reparational Genealogy, and we had a lot of fun while having some serious discussions, as well.You can find them on Facebook at facebook.com/genealogyadventuresusa, where this video is available and where the Facebook Live transmission was SUPPOSED to ...

I have three quick announcements, all of which are time sensitive, so hey, why not make a quick episode of them? Tune in to watch me be interviewed on Sunday the 13th on Facebook Live, add one of my new Facebook Profile Photo Frames to your photo on FB, and be sure to submit a Skelly Relly recording for the Halloween episode by Saturday, October 26th. Join in the fun! Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast provider, at https://apple.co/2MLZW4H, at facebook.com/AncestorsAliveGenealog...

I have three quick announcements, all of which are time sensitive, so hey, why not make a quick episode of them? Tune in to watch me be interviewed on Sunday the 13th on Facebook Live, add one of my new Facebook Profile Photo Frames to your photo on FB, and be sure to submit a Skelly Relly recording for the Halloween episode by Saturday, October 26th. Join in the fun! Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast provider, at https://apple.co/2MLZW4H, at facebook.com/AncestorsAliveGenealog...

I have three quick announcements, all of which are time sensitive, so hey, why not make a quick episode of them? Tune in to watch me be interviewed on Sunday the 13th on Facebook Live, add one of my new Facebook Profile Photo Frames to your photo on FB, and be sure to submit a Skelly Relly recording for the Halloween episode by Saturday, October 26th. Join in the fun! Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast provider, at https://apple.co/2MLZW4H, at facebook.com/AncestorsAliveGenealog...

Mormons, do you have nine 1st cousins, all of whom are named Brigham? Non-Mormons, are you considering Kayden, Jayden, Rayden and iPod as names for your next child? STOP THE MADNESS! Follow your family history pied piper and I will lead you to consider some better sources for baby names. Well, one better source: your own family history. Genealogy can help you to get to know your ancestors in so many ways, but none is more satisfying than naming a child for an ancestor, and then telling that ance...

Mormons, do you have nine 1st cousins, all of whom are named Brigham? Non-Mormons, are you considering Kayden, Jayden, Rayden and iPod as names for your next child? STOP THE MADNESS! Follow your family history pied piper and I will lead you to consider some better sources for baby names. Well, one better source: your own family history. Genealogy can help you to get to know your ancestors in so many ways, but none is more satisfying than naming a child for an ancestor, and then telling that ance...

Mormons, do you have nine 1st cousins, all of whom are named Brigham? Non-Mormons, are you considering Kayden, Jayden, Rayden and iPod as names for your next child? STOP THE MADNESS! Follow your family history pied piper and I will lead you to consider some better sources for baby names. Well, one better source: your own family history. Genealogy can help you to get to know your ancestors in so many ways, but none is more satisfying than naming a child for an ancestor, and then telling that ance...

My mother's mother, Ga, was a quiet, staid woman. She was peaceful, smiling, a model DAR and Midwestern sorority sister. But underneath it all...she was SAUCY. In this episode, I'll give you some of my grandmother's "International" sauce recipes (because sauce was a staple on her dinner table), and the reasons why I think her self-written attempts at international cuisine reveal a bit about who she was and the time and place that produced her. Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast ...

My mother's mother, Ga, was a quiet, staid woman. She was peaceful, smiling, a model DAR and Midwestern sorority sister. But underneath it all...she was SAUCY. In this episode, I'll give you some of my grandmother's "International" sauce recipes (because sauce was a staple on her dinner table), and the reasons why I think her self-written attempts at international cuisine reveal a bit about who she was and the time and place that produced her. Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast ...

My mother's mother, Ga, was a quiet, staid woman. She was peaceful, smiling, a model DAR and Midwestern sorority sister. But underneath it all...she was SAUCY. In this episode, I'll give you some of my grandmother's "International" sauce recipes (because sauce was a staple on her dinner table), and the reasons why I think her self-written attempts at international cuisine reveal a bit about who she was and the time and place that produced her. Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast ...

It's almost Halloween, my favorite time of year, and that means it's time for stories about your Skelly Rellies! This is your opportunity to be on the podcast without worrying about a full interview - just record a family story on your phone and send it to me at ancestorsalivegenealogy@gmail.com. I'll edit it together with the others I receive and we'll have us an episode all about listeners' ancestors. Don't be scared, there's nothing to it! At any time of day, from anywhere in the world, you c...

It's almost Halloween, my favorite time of year, and that means it's time for stories about your Skelly Rellies! This is your opportunity to be on the podcast without worrying about a full interview - just record a family story on your phone and send it to me at ancestorsalivegenealogy@gmail.com. I'll edit it together with the others I receive and we'll have us an episode all about listeners' ancestors. Don't be scared, there's nothing to it! At any time of day, from anywhere in the world, you c...

It's almost Halloween, my favorite time of year, and that means it's time for stories about your Skelly Rellies! This is your opportunity to be on the podcast without worrying about a full interview - just record a family story on your phone and send it to me at ancestorsalivegenealogy@gmail.com. I'll edit it together with the others I receive and we'll have us an episode all about listeners' ancestors. Don't be scared, there's nothing to it! At any time of day, from anywhere in the world, you c...

Don't be alarmed, but I'm about to alarm you. A little. Well, I'm going to make you think a bit, anyway. Nothing will happen tomorrow, but it sounds like Ancestry's parent company, Permira Advisers LLP, is willing to take out a very risky loan in order to fund a move that would denude Ancestry of $900 million. Yikes. I learned this from an article in Bloomberg, which you can read for yourself and assess: Ancestry.com Owners Aim to Extract $900 Million Payout With Loan. I was fueled by concern an...

Don't be alarmed, but I'm about to alarm you. A little. Well, I'm going to make you think a bit, anyway. Nothing will happen tomorrow, but it sounds like Ancestry's parent company, Permira Advisers LLP, is willing to take out a very risky loan in order to fund a move that would denude Ancestry of $900 million. Yikes. I learned this from an article in Bloomberg, which you can read for yourself and assess: Ancestry.com Owners Aim to Extract $900 Million Payout With Loan. I was fueled by concern an...

Don't be alarmed, but I'm about to alarm you. A little. Well, I'm going to make you think a bit, anyway. Nothing will happen tomorrow, but it sounds like Ancestry's parent company, Permira Advisers LLP, is willing to take out a very risky loan in order to fund a move that would denude Ancestry of $900 million. Yikes. I learned this from an article in Bloomberg, which you can read for yourself and assess: Ancestry.com Owners Aim to Extract $900 Million Payout With Loan. I was fueled by concern an...

So, have you been wondering where the heck I've been? In 2018 I was publishing weekly, yet I seem to have dropped off the podcasting Earth in 2019. I'm here to give you the reasons why, in hopes that we can hang together as I repair and resume work on the podcast. Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast provider, at https://apple.co/2MLZW4H, at facebook.com/AncestorsAliveGenealogy, or at Thumbtack.com. Hire me for American genealogical research, teaching, and forensic genealogy at a...

So, have you been wondering where the heck I've been? In 2018 I was publishing weekly, yet I seem to have dropped off the podcasting Earth in 2019. I'm here to give you the reasons why, in hopes that we can hang together as I repair and resume work on the podcast. Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast provider, at https://apple.co/2MLZW4H, at facebook.com/AncestorsAliveGenealogy, or at Thumbtack.com. Hire me for American genealogical research, teaching, and forensic genealogy at a...

So, have you been wondering where the heck I've been? In 2018 I was publishing weekly, yet I seem to have dropped off the podcasting Earth in 2019. I'm here to give you the reasons why, in hopes that we can hang together as I repair and resume work on the podcast. Please rate and review the podcast on your podcast provider, at https://apple.co/2MLZW4H, at facebook.com/AncestorsAliveGenealogy, or at Thumbtack.com. Hire me for American genealogical research, teaching, and forensic genealogy at a...

Today we have a new Patron, and new law in New York that will shake up the ENTIRE GENEALOGY WORLD - even outside the United States - the Weprin-Montgomery Law. Oh, and we have two brilliant cake recipes. One is from an Army wife friend of my grandmother's in the 1940s or 1950s, but the other is genuinely the oldest recipe I've been able to find in my family's trove.if you If you like apple cake or chocolate cake (or both), you are in the right place. Get ready to take notes, because these are fa...

Today we have a new Patron, and new law in New York that will shake up the ENTIRE GENEALOGY WORLD - even outside the United States - the Weprin-Montgomery Law. Oh, and we have two brilliant cake recipes. One is from an Army wife friend of my grandmother's in the 1940s or 1950s, but the other is genuinely the oldest recipe I've been able to find in my family's trove.if you If you like apple cake or chocolate cake (or both), you are in the right place. Get ready to take notes, because these are fa...

Today we have a new Patron, and new law in New York that will shake up the ENTIRE GENEALOGY WORLD - even outside the United States - the Weprin-Montgomery Law. Oh, and we have two brilliant cake recipes. One is from an Army wife friend of my grandmother's in the 1940s or 1950s, but the other is genuinely the oldest recipe I've been able to find in my family's trove.if you If you like apple cake or chocolate cake (or both), you are in the right place. Get ready to take notes, because these are fa...

No, seriously, get out of your head, Whenever you hit a brick wall, a Jeffrey, a Jeffreytina, one of Ancestry's infamous hang-ups, someone who's a 125cM match on AncestryDNA but who won't build a tree (but asks YOU to do it for him/her), or the documents start swimming before your eyes, it's time to STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER and get out of your head and into your body. Or, at least, get into a different part of your head. This episode discusses some of the ways that I step back in order to get...

No, seriously, get out of your head, Whenever you hit a brick wall, a Jeffrey, a Jeffreytina, one of Ancestry's infamous hang-ups, someone who's a 125cM match on AncestryDNA but who won't build a tree (but asks YOU to do it for him/her), or the documents start swimming before your eyes, it's time to STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER and get out of your head and into your body. Or, at least, get into a different part of your head. This episode discusses some of the ways that I step back in order to get...