Discovering My Roots

16 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
To hear various renditions of this carol, including in the original Ukrainian, scroll to the bottom of this article and turn your volume up.
“Carol of the Bells” (also known as the “Ukrainian Bell Carol”) is a choral miniature work originally composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych [...]

12 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
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Messages telling you to install and update security software for your computer seem to be everywhere. So you might be tempted by an offer of a “free security scan,” especially when faced with a pop-up, an email, or [...]

12 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour

This article has nothing to do with genealogy. However, it contains information that I believe every Internet user should know.
A newsletter reader sent an e-mail message to me today with a statement that caught my eye:
“There was a problem with Paypal. They advised that someone had tried to [...]

7 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]
Trypilian culture. A Neolithic–Bronze Age culture that existed in Right-Bank Ukraine ca 4500 to 2000 BC. It is named after a site near Trypilia in the Kyiv region uncovered by Vikentii Khvoika in 1898. The Trypilians were [...]

2 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
Professional genealogist and nationally know lecturer and author Barbara Renick has created a new tutorial video especially for UpFront with NGS readers, entitled “Searching at Ancestry Part 1.” In this audiovisual slideshow, Barbara describes the new Ancestry.com search engine. Using screen illustrations of the older search screens as [...]

1 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
The author of the request below indicates in his e-mail heading that his maternal ancestors were born in Dzviniachka or Dzwiniaczka. He writes:

I have been dabbling in genealogical research for several years, as time and resources permit. One of my major frustrations has been trying to trace my [...]