This is Why Your Society Isn’t Attracting Younger Members
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How not to encourage the next generation of genealogists (with recommendations from D. Joshua Taylor on what *to* do). Continue reading
Author Archives: Tammy Hepps
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The God Particle and Me
What do genealogy and particle physics have in common? They remind us to take stock of how far we’ve come. Continue reading
The Wayward Cows of Yore
My friend Robert Riger went looking for lost ancestors and instead found lost cows! (Presenting highlights of NEHGS’ newspaper collection.) Continue reading
The Other Obama Genealogy
Is the boy the father of the man or a leaf on his family’s tree? The latest consideration of Barack’s genealogy is lost in the controversy over Michelle’s. Continue reading
We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Quite a Lot of Incest
Mathematics applied to genealogy creates an upward bound on how distantly we are related to each other. Continue reading
When You Bang Your Head Against the Wall Hard Enough, an Insane Lady Appears with the Answers (Part Two)
Second half of how my toughest brick wall just finished tumbling down, thanks to the transcript of a deportation hearing for my great-grandmother’s mentally ill sister. Continue reading
When You Bang Your Head Against the Wall Hard Enough, an Insane Lady Appears with the Answers (Part One)
First part of a multi-year odyssey to trace the branch of the family I knew the least about when I started. Continue reading
What Was a 66 Year-Old Man Doing on the Roof of a Building, Anyway?
A mysterious death certificate sends me to a range of less-accessed New York City records to uncover the truth. Continue reading
This is Your Brain on Story
The latest scientific research on humans and storytelling explains why we are compelled to tell the greatest stories of them all — our own! Continue reading
Who Do You Think You Are? Season 3 Superlatives
Do you agree with my picks for the best moments of the third season of Who Do You Think You Are? Continue reading