On today's episode: Rootstech, Juneteenth, and Education - the Parties that Never End. Join me for a multi-layered episode with RootsTech 2023 guests and a special Juneteenth announcement that is tied to education all year long. I promise, they

Episode 9: Ancestral “Love”: Documenting Relationships and Emotions

Feb 15th, 2022 22m 3s

Welcome to Episode 9 of the BloodRoot Podcast: On today's bonus Valentine’s Day episode: Ancestral “Love” - Documenting Relationships and Emotions. Join me as we explore the complicated relationships of our ancestors, and look for ways to prove

Episode 8: Corn in the Blue Pocket: Our Ancestors’ Lessons of Elegant Economy

Feb 15th, 2022 15m 48s

Welcome to episode 8 of the BloodRoot Podcast. On today's episode: Corn in the Blue Pocket - Our Ancestors’ Lessons of Elegant Economy. Join us as we explore the many ways our ancestors lived conservatively to stretch not only their dollar, but

Episode 7: The Grave Issues with Findagrave. Featuring Special Guest: Daniel Loftus

Nov 1st, 2021 57m 25s

Episode 7: The Grave Issues with FindaGrave. Join us as your host shares a close death in the family and the emotional trauma from Findagrave that followed. Next, we traipse through the virtual cemetery with a special guest, Daniel Loftus of Da

Episode 6: RootsTech: Memories and Connections

Feb 25th, 2021 43m 27s

Welcome to the launch of Season 2! Join me for a special episode as we celebrate the launch of the RootsTech Connect Conference! To help us celebrate we welcome 5 guests to share their memories of previous on-site events and their hopes for the

Episode 5: A Brick Wall, Whitewashed: The Revolutionary Soldier and “Black Jenny”

Dec 20th, 2020 30m 49s

Jenny was a young mother of three in 1830 when her enslaver, a Revolutionary War Veteran, decided to set the family free and then willed his property to Jenny and her oldest son, Aaron. This episode will tell her remarkable story after it remai

Episode 4: Trauma and Perspective: Including Domestic Violence in the Family Narrative

Nov 10th, 2020 34m 2s

Today’s episode will feature a few family stories that help us explore the multi-layered impacts of domestic violence on our ancestors, ourselves, and the family narrative.

Episode 3: The Mantel Clock and Breakfast with John Hunt Morgan

Oct 5th, 2020 20m 24s

Join me for episode 3 as we explore a family legend tied to an heirloom clock. To uncover the roots of this story, we’ll examine the associated timeline, complicated ancestral context, and the perspective of the storyteller. Also, if you don’t

Episode 2: Voting For Old Abe: The Civil War Letters of Cynthia Low

Sep 17th, 2020 27m 5s

Today’s episode begins with a tale of lost Civil War letters and how their re-discovery turned a family legend upside down.

Episode 1: A History of the Beginning

Aug 26th, 2020 17m 47s

Welcome to the BloodRoot Podcast! In this premier episode, listeners will get an introduction to BloodRoot - what the podcast is all about, what types of material you may hear in a typical episode, and a little history about your host.