genealogy
Born into slavery, they rose to be elite New York Jews. A new book tells their story.
By Yonat Shimron — October 5, 2021
(RNS) — In her new book, ‘Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family,’ Laura Arnold Leibman shows that Jews were not only slave owners. They were also slaves.
Boston’s Catholic archdiocese expands effort to digitize archives
By Aysha Khan — August 12, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — The data will help individuals hoping to trace back their family ancestry, as well as historians, genealogists, economists and other scholars looking for bulk data for their research.
Do Mormon genealogy records include black people?
By Jana Riess — December 4, 2015
"I have heard that the Mormons kept meticulous records, yet I am an African American, so I don’t know if they would have records on my kin," a reader asks historian Henry Louis Gates.
Mormons will get free — FREE! — memberships to Ancestry.com
By Jana Riess — April 9, 2014
My church, which has always counseled against addiction in any form, is now going to PAY for my addiction by giving all Mormons a free membership to Ancestry.com. I am so there.
Cleaning out a life
By Jana Riess — February 7, 2014
I'm the original anti-clutter warrior, but I've met my Waterloo in my late mother's papers. I just can't throw them away.
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