Rootstech 2022 occurred live March 3-5, 2022. For the second year, it was 100% virtual, offering presentations from all around the globe in multiple languages.
For many years, we never knew why the Palmers, a cluster of my wife Patti’s ancestors on her mother’s side, uprooted from their farms in Alabama between 1880 and 1900, and moved to Texas.
When I first became interested in genealogy, my grandmother, Betty Ross Crook, steered me to research at FamilySearch.org.
The advent of databases like 23andMe and Ancestry.com has produced a revolution in genealogical tracing, allowing people to look into their family histories with remarkable ease.
It is probable that many Americans who consider themselves Irish are unaware that their immigrant ancestors from that island did not.
My mother bought two antique photo albums at the Canton, Texas flea market around 1986.
March 15, 2025
