Passion Spotlight: Genealogy
Every family’s got one — a long-ago relative with whom the family-history trail goes cold. The question for the genealogy enthusiast is what to do; the answer just may be: Join a genealogy club.
To be sure, genealogy clubs have not yet solved Sandra Crowley’s problem, her great-great uncle Arasapher — “my brick wall,” as she puts it — who’s eluded her research efforts for nearly 20 years. Just when Crowley thinks she’s got a lead on this 19th-century ancestor, “he disappears,” she says.
But Crowley’s not giving up on her genealogy network. Far from it. Instead, Crowley’s working to grow ties among enthusiasts as channel leader of GroupWorks’ Genealogy Channel.