Cheri Daniels on Clubhouse

Bio

🌱”We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors’ wisdom.” – Maya Angelou🌱

🎙Host of the BloodRoot Podcast.

💻Creator of the Genealogy Literacy website.🌳 http://genealogyliteracy.com/

📚Librarian, Archivist, Author, National Speaker, Editor, TV Personality, and Genealogist with 25+ years of research experience. 

📘Contributing author to the book: Genealogy and the Librarian, 2018.

📚Head of Library and Archives at the Kentucky Historical Society. 

📝Editor of Kentucky Ancestors Online (2013-present). 

🎬Project Manager and On-Air Personality for the TV Series: Kentucky Ancestors (2021). Expert featured on Mysteries at the Museum (2014).🎞

The journey has been long, and yet, it’s just getting started!

⌛️My house consists of an eclectic mixture of family heirlooms, book stacks, and archival boxes of family photos….sprinkled with teapots sitting in the oddest of places. When family comes to visit, I feel like an ancestral alchemist, rummaging through the boxes to find just the right ingredients for their magical trip down memory lane.

🌳The other thing you should realize about me is that while I love family history, I have no romantic notions about our ancestry. I am a genealogy pragmatist. I hold no delusions about humanity nor our ancestors. Humanity is beautiful, but it is ugly too. ‘Warts and all’ doesn’t even begin to describe some of the things our ancestors have done, chosen, or allowed to continue. We only have to look to American history to understand how messed up, yet precious, humanity can be. With these considerations, I do not believe in covering up the ugly to extol the good. We need examples of mistakes and good choices to help our journey of growth and I would argue that we grow better when hearing both types of stories about our ancestors.🌳

🚧Which means: this is a truth zone! This is the place to chuck out those romantic, fictional accounts of our ancestors. No filters here please – raw genealogy only!🚧