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Minerd.com regularly is in the public eye and generates new content and news. Telling the story of our website and archives, our extended population of cousins, national family reunion and proprietary brand of research and storytelling are keys to reaching many thousands of cousins and the public at large and sharing this website's encyclopedic trove of family information.
Our goal is to educate anyone about our mission to document the early lives of thousands of our collective forefathers, mothers and cousins, and the enormous, long-term collective impact that an average, ordinary American family can have on society. Here is a summary of news-making efforts since 1999.
~ 2026 ~
Jan. 28, 2026 - The 2025 Annual Review of this award-winning Minerd.com website is released to the public. The year 2025 marked the 25th anniversary of our site with news media recognition on National Public Radio in Pittsburgh, West Virginia Public Radio and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The past year’s highlights also included our national family reunion, continued research and publication of cousin biographies and feature stories, and sharing unique manuscript material found nowhere else. Perhaps most gratifying was that in early November 2025, the number of daily visits to our website mushroomed seven-fold at a pace continuing through the end of the year. During 2025, the headcount of members of our private family Facebook page grew to 1,162 with continuing and compelling posts about cousins near and far, past and present. Full text>>>