Press
- 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)
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Treelines
Winner, RootsTech Developer Challenge!
Favorite tool for building an online family scrapbook!
“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.)
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