Episode 179 of the free Genealogy Gems podcast is now available for your listening pleasure! In this episode, Lisa shares: stories of TWO inspiring family history discoveries: a stash of photos and documents AND a long-lost birth mother; highlights from meeting many...

Fifteen years after a Purple Heart and other lost WWII medals disappeared during a robbery, they have been returned to the family from whom they were stolen. The medals belonged to James Dillion Adkison, a Lubbock, TX soldier killed at Pearl Harbor in 1943. A niece of...

Recently Linda sent us this inspiring idea for making a heritage bracelet. “I made a bracelet for my mother for a birthday present a couple of weeks ago,” she wrote to us. “I printed out pictures of some of her female ancestors and glued them on...

A recent email from listener Helen reminds us to search our basements and attics for unique and amazing family history finds. There’s no substitute for being able to tell family members’ stories through their own words and photographs. “I just had to...

Recently I heard from Jillian in Arkansas, USA, who wrote about “a recent – and accidental” family history discovery she made in a family cookbook. “Not long ago, I was listening to archived episodes of your Genealogy Gems podcast where you and...

A 22-year year old man with a metal detector in France has brought a lot of joy to an 89-year widow in the U.S. As reported in TheBlaze.com, Francois Blaizot found an American’s World War II dog tag in Normandy last year. Instead of keeping or selling it, he...