Testimonials
David Laskin, best-selling author of the book, The Family, said:
Medical writer and professional genealogist Jane Neff Rollins gave a spellbinding talk about how to deal with sensitive and scandalous discoveries. In the course of researching her family history, Rollins has ferreted out a raft of secrets and transgressions that relatives have hidden over the years including instances of bigamy, theft, spousal abuse, suicide, homosexuality and conversion. As more and more family dirt surfaced, Rollins found herself facing the fraught ethical question of what to reveal.
Her bottom line is that she feels she has a responsibility to reveal heritable physical and mental traits, and has no qualms about telling embarrassing secrets when all the people involved are dead. “We genealogists can cause embarrassment,” says Rollins, “but keeping secrets is not good for you. Yes, I have gotten flak from family members — but ultimately I feel I am serving the greater truth.”
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/204417/a-report-from-the-jewish-genealogists-summer-ca/
-David Laskin
I have been going through the report, and I am VERY pleased. I continue to be amazed at what a great job you did. It was a FABULOUS report, far more than I could have expected. My wife LOVED the report. She could tell how difficult the work was.
-Jeff Koepke
Your classes were so stimulating, excellent and WOW! Usually I get home from a class, start trying to find the things the instructor told us about, and I meet more brick walls, but NOT this time… I found my Great Grandfather, Carl after listening to your talk who I have been looking for over 10 years.
-Nancy Peralta
You have such a careful and astute ability to analyze clothing and style: so meticulous and accurate.
-Rachel S Goodman