Roots2Blooms Genealogy

10/31/2025

09/22/2025

I can help you discover them!

11/14/2022

Just found this great link..if your family has any rural addresses, you might be able to find an Ariel image!

Over 18 million aerial photos documenting the history of rural America spanning five decades.

11/02/2022

Gotta keep in mind for next year!!!

10/04/2022

Not quite who I was expecting to find in my DNA matches.

09/08/2022

One of my current, personal, projects is going through old photos to send to families that would be most interested. For example, a picture of my great aunt, Pearl, will be off no sentimental value to my children. Her descendants, however, will appreciate it more than mine. So I’ll send it to them. Are you in the same position of having tons of photos with little to no sentimental value to you? Let me know and perhaps I can help you send them to family!

08/24/2022

I love the little things you find when going through family albums. They also give clues!
This is a card sent to me Grandmother from her Sunday school “cradle roll” for her second birthday.
It names a church that I’ve already reached out to to see if they have any records of her family

05/08/2022

I had a good laugh this evening. A long time ago, I downloaded a ton of census page images. I am just now going through them and naming them with date, surname, first name, city, county and state.
While scrolling through a page from 1870 US Census for Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, I found it was the beginning of the list of paupers living at the poor farm. Many only gave one name. And there, listed on row 18, was none other than "John the Baptist", age 35, and born in Ireland!

01/19/2022

“Why is my brother’s DNA result so different from mine?” A common question. A gentleman named Jon Prain made this great chart to demonstrate how this can happen! Keep in mind, each parent provides half the dna for a child, but it’s not always the same half! Note that neither the first nor the fourth child have any DNA from the second great-grandparent (in white!)

01/18/2022

Have you done a genetic DNA test? Which one did you choose? And if you haven’t, why not?
I’m finally digging into my DNA results to see if I can find the ancestors of my GG Grandfather, Andrew DeMorris! Which me luck!

10/29/2021

Are you doing research in Illinois? I just discovered a great free newspaper resource! It does require a login, but there is no cost! I was able to find the birth announcement for my husbands grandfather!

https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/