Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy

What programs like “Finding Your Roots” miss — and how I tracked down my own family’s history

Downtime from COVID, with no real end in sight, has led to all manner of new hobbies — and obsessions — including digging deeper into one’s family history. This had been a passion of mine even prior to the rising interest in ancestry that now is practically its own pandemic among my baby boomer peers….