Ancestors Alive Genealogy & From Paper To People Podcast

11/15/2025

Astonishing stories. Precious voices.

ABC News’ Alex Presha examines rare audio of formerly enslaved people to preserve their stories, and interviews one of their descendants, in partnership with...

11/14/2025

Here's a free video about hygienealogy on FamilySearch and other crowdsourced platforms.

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10/30/2025

My sister has chosen an amazing way to honor our deceased father - she is creating videos of songs from his estate's collection of rare jazz. He has his own YouTube channel! Music IS genealogy. If you're a jazz fan, like and follow!

This channel is dedicated to sharing lesser-known jazz recordings with the public, per my father James R. McLaughlin's wishes. No copyright infraction intended, these recordings are from his personal collection.

10/24/2025

I created this 10 years ago! It's always in season, though.

10/20/2025

That what that which he cannot conquer or comprehend, he destroys. He has no sense of the value of history.

PS: It ain't his house, kids. It's The People's House.
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10/20/2025

10/20/2025

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10/20/2025

Interested in Czech citizenship?

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Always wondered if your family’s Czech heritage would give you citizenship? Having an EU citizenship with an EU passport gives you and your family access to some of the most incredible work, study and travel opportunities you can imagine…but applying for dual citizenship can be a complex and dau...

10/19/2025

On being a child of Irish immigrants:

Thinking of immigrants this week, with a poem from Mom about an immigrant found dead in the snow. And my shillelagh.

10/19/2025

This extrapolates to all people. There is no time for the children of immigrants to hate new immigrants. It's not only hypocrisy, it's cruel. Learn about your family and you'll see the parallels.

10/19/2025

This extrapolates to all people. There is no time for the children of immigrants to hate new immigrants. It's not only hypocrisy, it's cruel. Learn about your family and you'll see the parallels.