Genealogical Library

Case Studies/Human Interest

• July/August 2008 - Ancestry Magazine article - "Where is the Honor Guard?"
• May/June 2008 - Ancestry Magazine article (digital version) - "Found! Who Gets the Bible"
• March 1, 2007 - Ancestry Magazine article - "She Had Me at Junkyard"
• January/February 2008 - Ancestry Magazine article (digital version) - "When Bibles Go Camping"
• December 3, 2007 - Ancestry Magazine article - "Freeing the Freeman Bible"
• November/December 2007 - Ancestry Magazine article (digital version) - "Travelin' Man"
• November 11, 2007 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Honoring Our Ancestors: Haley Family of Roots Fame Joins the DNA Game"
• October 18, 2007 - NPR, Day to Day - Maybe Politicians are Cut from the Same Cloth
• August 18, 2007 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "So That's What He Looked Like!"
• August 2, 2007 - Ancestry Magazine article - "Serial Centenarians"
• June 14, 2007 - listen to The Genealogy Guys Podcast - Drew Smith talks to Megan about Roots Television.
• February 4, 2007 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Feeling Bookish"
• January 5, 2007 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Tombstone Imagery"
• December 27, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "The Book Quest Continues"
• December 3, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "How Do We Stop This Epidemic?"
• August 20, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Using Ancestry.com: SSDI Blues"
• July 30, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Genealogical Books in Disguise"
• July 13, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Genealogical Cozies"
• May 21, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Get Out Your POW Bracelet"
• May 10, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "Curl Up with a Genealogical Mystery"
• May 4, 2006 - Ancestry Weekly Journal article - "More Unsung Heroes"
• February 28, 2006 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Happy Birthday, Ben!"
• February 16, 2006 - Ancestry Daily News article - "More Genealogical Quotes"
• January 26, 2006 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Say What?!"
• January 19, 2006 - Ancestry Daily News article - "This Is For You, Mrs. Berkowitz"
• January 3, 2006 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Unsung Genealogical Heroes"
• November 21, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Let Your Fingers Do the Shopping"
• November 11, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Where's Parmo?"
• October 13, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Flat Stanley Does His Roots"
• October 6, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Mystery of Cipriano Pedrini"
• September 13, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Name Dropping"
• September 1, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "A DNA Success Story"
• August 18, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Flirting with Death"
• August 2, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "A Coronery Case"
• July 7, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Ancestral Art"
• June 26, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Still More Extreme Genealogy"
• June 9, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "More Extreme Genealogy"
• May 25, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Memorial Day is Every Day"
• May 12, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Why We Search"
• March 17, 2005 - Ancestry Daily News article - "What's In a Name?"
• December 14, 2004 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Survey to Examine Genealogists' Internet Habits"
• November 11, 2004 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Tanks for the Memories"
• September 23, 2004 - Ancestry Daily News article - "DNA Holiday"
  
• August 2004 - Family Chronicle article - "Finding Homes for Orphan Heirlooms"
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• August 2004 - Family Tree article - "Large and In Charge"
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• June 2004 - Family Chronicle article - "Getting the Most From Your Genealogy Trips to Europe"
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• May 27, 2004 - Washington Post article - "Fallen but Never Forgotten by Matt Schudel" - article about one of my Army Repatriation cases.
• April-June 2004 - Genealogical Computing article - "Steve Morse: A Genealogical Mensch"
• March 17, 2004 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Luck of the Irish"
• February 11, 2004 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Finding a Soldier's Family"
• December 22, 2003 - Ancestry Daily News article - "From Ellen to Eileen"
• December 11, 2003 - Ancestry Daily News article - "If You're a Wee Bit Irish"
• September/October 2003 - Ancestry article - "Who Is the Genealogist Next Door?"
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• September/October 2003 - Heritage Quest article - "Answers in the Cemetery: James Reynolds of Jersey City, NJ"
• November 10, 2003 - Ancestry Daily News article - "All I Want for Christmas..."
• October 7, 2003 - Ancestry Daily News article - "Hurricanes Happen..."
• August 22, 2003 - listen to NPR's Marketplace feature - "The Lucrative Business of Genealogy"
• July/August 2003 - Heritage Quest article - "Finding Great-Grandma in San Quentin"
• July 22, 2003 - Ancestry Daily News article - "A Stoop on Orchard Street"
• April 29, 2003 - Ancestry Daily News article - "The Zen of Genealogy"
• February 28, 2003 - Ancestry Daily Newsarticle - "Musical Roots"
• January 8, 2003 - They Came to America - PBS Special and companion guidebook
• January 2, 2003- Ancestry Daily News article - "PBS Special on 8 January 2003: They Came To America"
• May/June 2002 - Heritage Quest article - "Maurice Reidy: Little Boy Lost"
• January/February 2002 - Heritage Quest article - "Morality on Trial"