• How a woman from New Jersey found her Jewish roots in Pittsburgh (KDKA, 5/24/2023)
• Historian and author take look at census, its uses and shortcomings (The Jewish Chronicle, 2/24/23)
• Why genealogist Tammy Hepps came to Pittsburgh (NEXTpittsburgh,12/22/2022)
• Genealogy workshop to raise money for Ukraine (The Jewish Chronicle, 3/28/2022)
• Jewish genealogy conference program remembers small-town communities (Cleveland Jewish News, 7/31/2019)
• Rauh researchers reveal forgotten Jewish stories from WWI (The Jewish Chronicle, 11/16/2017)
• Research on Jews in Homestead brings World War I stories out of the shadows (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/11/2017)
• National Archives Researcher Spotlight (The National Archives at Philadelphia, 7/17/2016)
• Former New York tech executive finds passion in uncovering Homestead’s Jewish history (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/24/2015)
  This article was picked up by numerous newspapers nation-wide like the Houston Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Washington Times, plus Jewish newspapers like Vos Is Neias and HaModia.
• Archivists giving priority to reviving small-town histories (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/24/2015)
• Jewish Family Stories (The Apple Seed on BYU Radio, 3/19/2015)
• One woman’s obsession is Jewish Homestead’s enormous gain (The Jewish Chronicle, 10/14/2014)

Finding a Jewish family’s roots in Homestead (Post-Gazette.com Videos, 5/24/2015)
(More videos available here.)

Treelines

“Welcome to the new genealogy metaphor… This is the type of innovation that I came to RootsTech to find.”
—The In-Depth Genealogist

“Treelines is possibly my new favorite genealogy website…not only do I love the concept of a site helps you tell your family stories, I love that Treelines makes it easy to do!”
—Elyse Doerflinger, winner of the 2012 Suzanne Winsor Freeman Student Genealogy Grant

A “visual photographic narrative program unlike any you may have seen before.”
—James Tanner, Genealogy’s Star

“This looks like a really useful program for telling stories and linking them to persons.”
“There are some wonderful stories already posted on Treelines – read some of them.”
—Randy Seaver, Genea-Musings

“Now this is a very exciting app… My daughter, who is into genealogy, she’s really into the visual way to present things. She’s going to flip when I show her this.”
“When you go to a funeral or a wedding, or you go to visit somebody… now you can pull out this! I love it!”
—DearMYRTLE LIVE!

Great new tool to build bridges between now & then.
—Denise Levenick, author of How to Archive Family Keepsakes

“Treelines provides a way to present the stories one collects during one’s research and present it for family (read: non-genealogist) consumption in a graphically, consumer-friendly and pleasing manner.”
—Emily Garber, (going) The Extra Yad

Treelines is “pulling in a lot of what I’ve noticed in the way my kids read and write and share online — visual interest and flexibility in how much and what you write being biggies.”
—Liz Haigney Lynch, The Ancestral Archaeologist

(More site reviews here.)

Lecture reviews & blog posts

• IAJGS Cleveland highlights (The Cuckoo Tree)
• RootsTech 2016 Review:  What Were The Best Classes Not Streamed? (A Patient Genealogist)
• RootsTech 2016 Review:  Get Your Start-Up Taken Seriously by a Big Company (FamilySearch Blog)
• RootsTech Recap, 2016 – Part 1 (DigiRoots Genealogy)
• Family Memories: Genealogists Share Favorite Family History Documents (FamilySearch Blog)
• IAJGS 2015, Jerusalem:  Day 2 ((going) The Extra Yad)
• IAJGS 2014 Conference – Day 3 (Lara’s Jewnealogy)
• Tammy Hepps, Treelines, Woman Extrepreneur (Gotham Gal)