I Think I Know What Killed Newspapers
It was a sunny day when newspapers died. The rise of the Internet didn’t do it. Craigslist was innocent. Social media wasn’t the culprit either.… Read More »I Think I Know What Killed Newspapers
Searching for (and finding!) the Ancestral Homeplace in Germany
By Andrew Laker For centuries, children of the Laker clan were born and raised on a single diminutive patch of earth in Angelbeck, a small… Read More »Searching for (and finding!) the Ancestral Homeplace in Germany
Using a Smartphone App to Forensically Reconstruct The Face of An Ancestor
I was playing around with a popular app on my phone one day. It was called FaceApp, and I was cracking up at all of… Read More »Using a Smartphone App to Forensically Reconstruct The Face of An Ancestor
The Last Time I Saw Stinky
(The last names used in this story have been changed for privacy. The rest has been told exactly as it occurred.) The last time I… Read More »The Last Time I Saw Stinky
The Strange Disappearance of My Ancestor’s Headstone
“No! Where did it go!?” I muttered to myself as I combed in frustration the rows of graves at St. Mary’s of the Rock cemetery… Read More »The Strange Disappearance of My Ancestor’s Headstone