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December 30, 2007 344 0

Mormons Expand Free Access to Genealogy Records for Researchers

There has never been a better time to research a family tree because of the free access to billions of records offered by Mormon Family History Libraries around the...

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December 29, 2007 330 0

Sharing the essence of their lives

Years from now, descendants of African-American Staten Islanders will have easy access to the narratives of their ancestors thanks to the efforts of StoryCorps Griot...

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December 29, 2007 358 0

History Captured: Genealogy service records dynasties

Armen Afrikyan, a historian-lawyer by training, explains what importance a family tree has for Armenians and shows the family tree of the well-known dynasty of the...

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December 29, 2007 369 0

Meet South Florida’s detective of death

Looking for details about your great-grandfather’s death 45 years ago? Searching for survivors of the friendly neighbor who died without a will? Can’t...

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December 29, 2007 342 0

Online Sites Offer Peek Into The Past

It is the time of year when families travel to be together, share meals and sit around swapping stories about childhood, relatives who’ve passed away and what...

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December 20, 2007 345 0

FamilySearch, Generations Network announce agreement

FamilySearch and The Generations Network Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com, have announced an agreement that provides free access to Ancestry.com for patrons of...

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December 16, 2007 343 0

Community members open archives of forgotten slave town

One of the nation’s oldest black communities where slaves and their descendants have lived for two centuries is writing its own history books.The long-forgotten...

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December 16, 2007 328 0

Living In The Past: History Center Lets The Genealogy Out Of The Bottle

Sandra Haxton has gone back with the Sparkman family to Ireland in the late 1600s.Judy Kelley has tracked the Holbrooks into the mid- to late 16th century. As...

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December 14, 2007 328 0

Watson’s DNA reveals some African ancestry

News that geneticist James Watson inherited 16 percent of his DNA from an African ancestor may provide the Nobel Prize winner with a new perspective on his ancestry...

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December 14, 2007 347 0

Black Britons find their African roots

Beaula McCalla, a youth worker from the UK town of Bristol, never imagined that she would one day meet her relatives in Equatorial Guinea, 6,500 km away. “It...

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December 14, 2007 579 0

Unearthing a Family Tree’s Diverse Roots

Journalist, novelist and playwright Thulani Davis traces her roots in her new book, My Confederate Kinfolk: a Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots...

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December 13, 2007 326 0

New Exhibit Profiles Ontario’s Early Black History

TORONTO and DRESDEN, ON, Dec. 13 /CNW/ – A traveling exhibit called Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada will leave a lasting legacy for the McGuinty...

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