Daily Genealogist

Roxanne Moore Saucier, the “Family Ties” columnist for the Bangor Daily News, reflects on what she learned during a recent visit to the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Workers digging a New Orleans back yard for a pool found thirteen stacked burial caskets. 

Salon.com excerpts a selection from Ancestors and Relatives, a new Oxford University Press book by Eviatar Zerubavel which presents a “sociological understanding of ancestry and descent.”