Twisted Roots: A Genealogist's True Crime Podcast

07/12/2025

Hello all! I just wanted to give an update. As I'm sure you've noticed, I've not been able to post for a while - but Twisted Roots isn't gone. With our current political climate, and some personal things, I haven't been able to focus on new episodes as I had hoped. The website and channel are still up and I will continue to update with documentation of past episodes, I also still want to finish the Jack the Ripper series and I have a long list of other stories that I want to tell in the future - hopefully the near future.

For the time being, I've decided to shut down the "Buy Me a Coffee" subscriptions. You'll never know how much your support has meant to me, but I feel bad continuing them when I can't guarantee when the next episode will be released.

Future updates will be posted here. Thank you!

02/04/2025

01/20/2025

Love the pups hanging out!

This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day. (France 1902).

01/20/2025

Doing some research and for an upcoming episode and happened across this interesting bit of information. The 1910 City Directory for Cleveland, Ohio included a extensive list of "Automobile Owners" including their license plate number and the type of vehicle - gasoline, steam, or electric! Unfortunately the list is not in alphabetical order, but numerical by license plate.

Link on Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469/records/1104515066?tid=&pid=&queryId=65fc65a9-fed4-460d-9e43-ebc4006a32b6&_phsrc=EGE2744&_phstart=successSource

01/19/2025

Published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer - 27 Sep 1913. A look at "modern" high schoolers a little over a century ago.

01/14/2025

https://www.newspapers.com/image/558724600/
The Hanford Sentinel - 7 May 1931

The cat for the win!!

09/29/2024

This week's scorecard:
Max Weis: 0
Cat: 1
(Ottawa Journal 1961, via Newspapers.com)