About me
I'm a journalist focusing on genealogy, speak at international conferences and genealogy societies, teach online genealogy classes and I've been president of a large genealogy society.
My genealogical passions include encouraging young people to become interested in genealogy, finding new resources and assisting others to find the information they need.
For six years, I wrote "It's All Relative," for the
Jerusalem Post's weekly
Metro,.
Tracing the Tribe, is another blog of mine.
My stories have appeared in newspapers, magazines and genealogical journals. I'm a member of the American Jewish Press Association and the Association of Professional Genealogists.
My love for family history grew out of a deep interest in history, anthropology, sociology, world cultures and peoples.
At a junior high school summer music camp, held on a large New England university campus, I discovered the campus bookstore. While my fellow campers were asking their parents for money for ice cream and the movies, mine went for books in my favorite subjects.
The step to genealogy resulted from our daughter's homework assignment. She brought home a one-page form asking for information about her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. That weekend, we attended a family life cycle event and asked questions of my husband's relatives, returning home with hundreds of small cocktail napkins scribbled with information. She turned to me and said, "Now we have to do your side."
The rest, as they say, is history.