by Joe Garonzik, Marketing Director, Genealogical Publishing Co.
Forgive us for beaming, but 2009 marks the 50th birthday of Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Jules Chodak, the company’s founder, frequented book auctions and amassed a sizable collection of rare and out-of-print books pertaining to general Americana. He advertised his acquisitions in a series [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
Family reunions were not events that my immediate family attended when I was growing up. As a child, my mother had attended family reunions for her mother’s family, but as her mother died quite young, those ties slipped away over time. A “reunion” for my family, then, was Christmas dinner with my [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
Drew Smith’s Social Networking for Genealogists (Genealogical Publishing Co., 2009) defines a wiki as “a website that provides an easy way for multiple individuals to create and edit the pages of the site without having to know any specialized formatting language.” We all may have consulted an entry in Wikipedia, the “free [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
Migration trails have not played a significant role in my family research. My mother’s family moved either from the counties of coastal Massachusetts inland to Hampshire and Hampden Counties (and stayed there for generations) or from the New Haven, Connecticut, area to Hampden County, Massachusetts (and stayed there for generations). When I [...]