I told the story of how DNA testing reunited the families of two brothers (my grandfather Carl’s older brother Harry wasn’t heard from after 1923, though he lived until 1972). Thanks to a 2C1R match that found me, I was led to Harry’s daughter Geraldine Burke Kuck. A 23andMe test confirmed that Geraldine is my father’s first cousin.
I just spent a week working in the Province of Frosinone with Janeen Bjork a professional researcher from America. She was working on a huge DNA project involving diverse families whose patriarchs were recruited to work in a stone quarry in Upstate New York...
STAMFORD — Gail G. Trell always knew about her grandfather starting the United Coat and Suit Co., a women’s apparel factory on Beckley Avenue that was demolished to make way for Interstate 95....
GREENWICH — During the coronavirus pandemic, families have been coming together in some unexpected ways. For one woman from Old Greenwich, that has meant moving into her father’s senior-living complex near Syracuse, N.Y., and staying in quarantine with him for the duration. To Janeen Bjork, it’s been a chance to fill in some family history and hear stories from her father, Carl Bjork, 93, as well as an expression of love for her father.
Is it time to write an obituary for American newspapers? Where once almost every adult in America read a ‘broadside’ or newspaper, today hard-copy editions…
Locals of a certain age go back to school next month to pursue the second most popular hobby in the U.S.: Genealogy (second to gardening). Genealogy is a multi-billion dollar industry but genealogy courses offered at Norwalk Community College...
Twenty “Genealogy & Computers” students took part in Moving Up ceremonies on Monday, May 2, in recognition of the eight weeks of study they undertook starting in March at the non-profit Lifetime Learners Institute at Norwalk Community College. The students received certificates...
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Janeen shared the lessons she learned researching her first ancestor who was famous for more than 15 minutes. CNYGS’ Genealogy Technology Interest Group meets at the Salina Library, 100 Belmont Street, Mattydale (Syracuse), NY, less than four miles from where her ancestor was murdered.
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