Site your sources of genealogical information. This is a case of don’t do as I did; do as I say. When I started doing my family history about 1976 I would make copies when I could but many books couldn’t be copied because they were too old or too fragile. So I would hand write …
There is a new genealogy series coming to PBS in February. Professor Henry Louis Gates from Harvard is the host of “Faces of America.” The series uses the latest techniques of genealogy and genetics to trace the ancestors of famous Americas to all over the planet. “Professor Gates’s guests include poet Elizabeth Alexander, who composed …
My family had cable TV very early. I grew up in Elmira, NY and we only had one TV station in town and another station from Binghamton that you could almost see, sometimes. It was about summer of 1963 when the cable was installed on our street. We got hooked up as soon as possible. …