Celia


Battle of Point Pleasant

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October 10, 1774 By Cecilia Fábos-Becker Battle of Point Pleasant The French and Indian War, aka The Seven Years War, really started in 1754, and was concluded by a treaty… Read more

Semiquincentennial Grants

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US National Park Service is Accepting Applications By Cecilia Fábos-Becker American Independence Semiquincentennial We recently learned about the planned commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. Back in… Read more

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland This past week, we learned about an important new resource for family history researchers whose ancestors came from Ireland as Irish, or passed through Ireland… Read more

Why I Dropped Out of the Facebook group ‘DNA Detectives’

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(and I won’t return) First a few facts. I chose to leave this Facebook group. The group did not drop me, nor had I yet been ‘suspended.’ I decided to… Read more

Queen Elizabeth II Dead

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Long live King Charles III Elizabeth II Most of our readers probably know by now that Queen Elizabeth II, of the UK, passed from this life to the next on… Read more

America’s Other Irish Documentary

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A Challenge from the Irish Government to American Scots especially, and Scots-Irish An International Documentary Association Project International Documentary Ass’n A bit over 2 weeks ago, my husband and I… Read more

The International Documentary Association

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Films that Might Interest AmeriCeltic Readers International Documentary Ass’n About ten days ago we received an interesting request to help raise some funds for a new intended film about the… Read more

Anniversary of Action by Another Courageous Wallace

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Wilma Fabos First U.S. Strike for Equal Pay for Women Wednesday, July 1st, 1981 July 1-9, 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the first strike in the U.S. on the… Read more

Finding and Sorting DNA Matches

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Inherited Blood Types Check Blood Type, and compare to Documents In the last few weeks, I’ve seen several questions and discussions about how to identify parents when what is on… Read more

Wishful Thinking and DNA Analysis

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Wishful Thinking Family History & DNA Reminder: You can only match to analyzed DNA This means recently LIVING persons who took a DNA test Just as with the early pandemic… Read more