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Race and Gender in the Salem Witch Trials

Patricia Carey

My 8th great grandfather, Abraham Haseltine, was a farmer from Rowley, Massachusetts, and when the summons came, he served as the foreman of one of the grand juries that preceded the Salem Witch Trials. Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | 3 COMMENTS

William Monighoff

My Father’s German Family

Gloria Schwartz Christine

I was 15-years old when learned the name of my father's deceased mother, Minnie Monighoff. Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | 2 COMMENTS

Thomas Kent

The Kent Family and the Easter Rising

Carol McCarthy Martin

I started my family tree journey a couple of years ago. I love finding out the bits and pieces that make up my lineage. Though, being of Irish heritage it is always difficult to locate all the information you would like. Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | 3 COMMENTS

Fallen Woman?

L J Craig

I know my 5 greats grandfather is Toliver Craig and that he arrived in America around 1704 which some records also list as the year of his birth. Continue reading ...

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The Washington Post

Paula Copeland

During the 2008 presidential campaign, The Washington Post printed an article about Michelle Obama's great great grandfather . The story contained a link to a website that I accessed and to my surprise I found my great great grandfather in the 1870 Census. Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

What “Englishman”?

Linda V. Carter

After my Grandfather died in St. Kitts, W.I., I asked my mother, why my dark hair had bright red strains mixed in. She said it was because of that Engishman. What Engishman? You know the one who wrote that song they always play at funerals, "Amazing Grace"!!! Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment

What am I? Who am I?

Cyndi M Maivia (Lopez)

All my life I have looked in the mirror and ask What am I ? Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | 5 COMMENTS

On the road to my Great-Grandfather

Sylvia F. Wilkins

We've all been there.... you have a surname or a given name and you think that because you have "Jones" or "Smith" or "John" that this is going to be a piece of cake. WRONG!!!!! Continue reading ...

March 20, 2012 | 8 COMMENTS

A Lost Ancestor

Chris Martin

For many years I had heard stories of my great gandmother Emma. It had been told to us that she was from France, Germany or possibly Switzerland. It was never related in the stories that how she arrived to the … Continue reading ...

March 19, 2012 | 11 COMMENTS

My Colorful Roots and Branches

Pamela Poole Rogers

My Colorful Roots and Branches I started researching my family genealogy after years of growing up hearing family stories and tales. My family has an unusual name which is “LIVELY”. My mother comes from a large family of 13 brothers … Continue reading ...

March 19, 2012 | 2 COMMENTS

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The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premieres nationally Sundays, March 25 – May 20 at 8 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).

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