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In 2020-2021, I ran a lot of Zoom meetings for military research and genealogy/ancestral healing. A lot of things shifted and I stopped doing them for a long time. Now, I'm bringing back online...
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July 12, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the fire that destroyed thousands of Army and Army Air Force and Air Force Official Military Personnel Files at the National...
Yesterday I had a consultation with a potential research client who was seeking answers about his family's history and his father's military service. He had previously hired another military...
How often in the course of your family history and military research and ancestral healing have you encountered information or beliefs or written words that offended you? Shocked or triggered you...
We all know that today, no matter where you live in the world, if you have status (including military rank), money, education, and social connections, you will get farther in life. You will receive...
I had a conversation with a friend about John Bradshaw's book Family Secrets. I also shared that I'm creating some new genealogy workshops to help people look at their lives and the...
Knowing your family's generational patterns and trauma can provide important insights into the context and circumstances in which your ancestors lived. Those insights may also provide awareness...
The family should be studied as a whole when we talk about the experiences of our veterans and war.
Do you agree or disagree with that statement?
As genealogists and military...