Every year in February or March thousands of genealogists from all over the world travel to Salt Lake City to attend the RootsTech Conference. We took part in this amazing family history event in 2019 and 2020. Since the outbreak of the pandemic all genealogical gatherings have been cancelled, like many other events. RootsTech 2020 Read more…
There are quite a few websites that give us insight into what happened on a specific day 100 years ago, for example. On Twitter, the hashtag #OTD (short for On This Day) shows dozens of tweets with news from the past. One event is certainly not listed: the death of Berend Kronenberg in Streukel, in Read more…
This 20th of January 2021 marks the day that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. There are a lot of articles on the internet that deal with his immediate family and his Irish ancestry. But it made us question whether this family name ever appeared in the Read more…