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GENEALOGY IN THE NEWS - MARCH 2005
"C'est un miracle," says Parisian-born Sophie Szejer, 79, referring to the family reunion she had in Cleveland last weekend. Believing she was the only one left in the entire Szejer family who survived the Holocaust, she was now surrounded by 60 blood relatives. Cleveland Jewish News (OH), March 31, 2005.
A genealogy researcher has run the Bible (Biebel) family back to a small village in Alsace, then to Philadelphia in November 1750. Herald Democrat (TX), March 30, 2005.
Exhuming famous people to test their tissues is mired in legal, ethical and moral problems. Ohmy News (South Korea), March 29, 2005.
Jeanne Marie (Ploeger) Hugh of Laurens, Iowa spent the first several years of her life in an orphanage. So did two siblings. Storm Lake Pilot Tribune (IA), March 28, 2005.
A family’s history can be difficult to research, but when that history includes slavery, the discovery becomes much more complex and emotional. Columbia Missourian (MO), March 27, 2005.
Amateur sleuths often discover that a peek up the family tree grows into an irresistible lifetime hobby. Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI), March 27, 2005.
An e-mail from my mom, the ardent genealogist, delivered unexpected but welcome news. "My dear little Yankee daughter," she wrote recently, "I found a New England ancestor for you." An article by author Margaret Porter. Concord Monitor (NH), March 26, 2005.
A file highlighted for Archive Awareness Campaign reveals an attempt made in 1922 to poison the then Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service with walnut whips. News from The National Archives (UK), March 23, 2005.
Our Yorkshire ancestors went to their graves with some strange last wishes, according to hundreds of years of wills being made available for the first time on the Internet at British Origins
Researchers have found the remains of eight children they cannot place on the family tree of the Medicis of Florence, one of Europe's most illustrious families. The Guardian (UK), March 21, 2005.
Arkansas : A collection of genealogical materials amassed over a lifetime by the late Springdale businessman Bill Stamper was donated to the Genealogy Collection of the Fayetteville Public Library. Northwest Arkansas Times (AR), March 22, 2005.
The La Crosse Public Library is celebrating 25 years of its Archives and Local History program. LaCrosse Tribune (WI), March 19, 2005.
Separated by circumstances before she was born, the two met for the first time Feb. 22 and have been catching up on five decades. Las Vegas Sun (NV), March 9, 2005.
The U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative explains why it's important to keep track. Reader's Digest (US), March 2005.
Wherever he goes, Jose Antonio Tavares dos Anjos of Taunton, Mass. carries his Cape Verdean family history around his neck. The Enterprise (MA), March 7, 2005.
In his book, "The Story of Bobtown," Robert Bennett focuses on the town and its people, especially the residents from the 1920s and early '30s. Post Gazette (PA), March 7, 2005.
Harold Brooks-Baker, publisher of the aristocratic genealogy guide Burke's Peerage and a much-quoted authority on royalty, has died, friends and family said Sunday. He was 71. USA Today, March 6, 2005.
North Carolina : The Kelly Historical Society recently moved into its new home at the old Centerville Baptist Church. Organizers plan to convert the former Sunday School rooms and sanctuary into exhibition halls featuring the southern Bladen County community. Bladen Journal (NC), March 4, 2005.
Helen Burcham Green entered the computer world a decade ago after writing her first book, an extensive family genealogy that traces ancestors back to the 1400s. Seattle Times (WA), March 5, 2005.
Rebels, Covenanters — all sorts of ‘redlegs’ were shipped to Barbados over the centuries, writes Chris Dolan. Sunday Times (UK), March 6, 2005.
Who would have thought Donny Osmond, the American heart-throb whose picture adorned a million teenage bedroom walls in the 1970s, had his roots in Wales? BBC News (UK), March 1, 2005.
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