Links are included above for three Ole columns from the NewsMagazine. The first two created lots of comments, both positive and negative, when they appeared. Some readers really enjoyed the column, while a few objected that Ole would dare bring humor to the pages of publication of the century-old National Genealogical Society. In response, the NGS Board banned the column from the NewsMagazine. As a result, Ole's third article was pulled from the December 2004 issue.

But you can judge for yourself! Click on the right to read Ole's columns, including the "Banned in D.C." column which now appears here for the first time. Simply click on the link below marked "December 2004."

ABOUT OLE SMIRNOFF BERNATELLI
Ole Smirnoff Bernatelli immigrated to the U.S. over ninety years ago after providing legendary service as a captain in the Latvian Fishing Boat Uprising. America's oldest living genealogist and an independent researcher specializing in Latvian royal blood lines, Ole is also the founder of the Italian-Russian-Swedish Genealogical Peoples Association International. An imminent genealogist, he is the author of the critically acclaimed My Ancestors To This Point, and a columnist for the Immigrant Fishing Boat News.

Ole is a wide and respected author whose articles have not appeared in The American Genealogist, the NEHGS Register, the NGS Quarterly, Family Tree Magazine, the NYG&B Record, Family Chronicle, Heritage Quest, Everton's Genealogical Magazine, The New York Times, People, U.S. News & World Report, Soap Opera News, Modern Woodworking, or Martha Stewart's Living.

Ole Smirnoff Bernatelli can be reached by email at olesgenealogicals@juno.com.