Profile

tammy

About Me

I'm the founder of Treelines!

I've been into genealogy since I was 12 and software development for almost as long. With Treelines I've combined this experience to reinvent what genealogy software can do for the next generation of genealogists.

Stories

How I Got Into Genealogy

How I Got Into Genealogy

Not many people can say they got started at 12, but I did! Here's the full story.

July 1991 – 2013
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Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?

Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?

The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.

12/4/1901 – 2000
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How the Yorkers Immigrated to Philadelphia

How the Yorkers Immigrated to Philadelphia

Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.

April 15, 1858 – 1950
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Rabbi Adolph Huebsch, Bernhardt, and Us

Rabbi Adolph Huebsch, Bernhardt, and Us

Our first encounter with Rabbi Huebsch moved us to tears, but is he even related to our (great-)grandfather Bernhardt?

1525 – May 2010
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Grammy's Wedding Keepsakes

Grammy's Wedding Keepsakes

Some of our best family heirlooms are the things Grammy kept from her wedding.

1941 – December 1, 2007
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Grandmom's Wedgwood China

Grandmom's Wedgwood China

My most treasured heirloom recalls holiday meals and Grammy's cooking. It also records -- literally! -- something more about their lives.

1959 – 2009
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From the Ancient Dead to the Recent Dead

From the Ancient Dead to the Recent Dead

How I almost became an archaeologist instead of a genealogist.

April 1989 – March 2013
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The Amazing Ancestry of Abraham Phillips

The Amazing Ancestry of Abraham Phillips

"Born 1808, Philadelphia," read his tombstone in a Mississippi Jewish cemetery. Could I prove my hunch about what that meant?

1668 – May 2013
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