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A Facebook Family Reunion

Facebook played an important role in getting Martin and Mary Anne Groen in touch with a relative from the Netherlands, who, a few months earlier,...

How removed are your cousins?

Not long ago, an emailer asked “Can you tell me what ‘once removed’ means when referring to a cousin? This has always baffled me!” Sharon...

Family trees for the first Thanksgiving participants

Millions of Americans can tie their roots back to the original Thanksgiving participants. So it’s no surprise that eight past American Presidents share family trees...

Book Reviews

Zap The Grandma Gap Studies show that knowledge about family history strengthens and empowers kids by creating self-esteem, resilience and a greater sense of control...

The Harmelink Archive

In an effort to collect and preserve family documents and treasures, Vernon and Sondra (Einfeldt) Harmelink, Phoenix, Arizona, established a family archive. They voluntarily began...

Family Skeleton

For one Iowa family, a family skeleton brought them together again. Literally. After 132 years, James Benson's bones were unearthed from his Lafayette County, Wisconsin,...

Catskills Ideal

The third international reunion of about 125 descendants of Richard Lounsberry (ca. 1634 - 1690) was a great success, reports Albert "Al" Lounsbury, Saratoga Springs,...

In case you don’t remember

Charlotte Johnson, Alton, Illinois, is historian for the family reunion of George Schultz and "His," Inc. She presents a very entertaining slide show about the...

National Archives figure in reunion display

Ericka Watson, Westampton, New Jersey, has been bitten by the genealogy bug. She gathered several members of the Williams Family Reunion for a research trip...

Frederickson Family Reunion

Elsie Hutton, the oldest of nine, and daughter of an oldest of nine father, has much to deal with as she resurrects the Frederickson Family...