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Appalshop Staff Working Hard to Preserve Archived Items Damaged in Kentucky Flood

This is a follow-up story to my previous article, Kentucky’s Floods Took Appalachian History With Them, published at https://eogn.com/page-18080/12876700 on August 8: Decades worth of Appalachian history was damaged in the flash flood three weeks ago. Flood water broke through the Appalshop archive in Whitesburg, which held over fifty years of history. Now, a lot …

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At the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, a Genealogy Butler Can Find Your Irish Roots

Dublin’s grande dame hotel, the Shelbourne—actually employs a genealogy butler. Guests can send relevant information, such as ancestors’ names, dates of birth and death, and names of villages, to resident genealogist Helen Kelly, who can then comb through records to help paint a fuller picture of a family tree. Since starting at the hotel in 2007, Kelly …

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At the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, a Genealogy Butler Can Find Your Irish Roots

Dublin’s grande dame hotel, the Shelbourne—actually employs a genealogy butler. Guests can send relevant information, such as ancestors’ names, dates of birth and death, and names of villages, to resident genealogist Helen Kelly, who can then comb through records to help paint a fuller picture of a family tree. Since starting at the hotel in 2007, Kelly …

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