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Online death notice doesn't prove Joe Biden is dead; anyone can update | Fact check
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe claim: Ancestry.com entry proves Biden died in 2018 at Guantanamo Bay A June 13 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a woman navigating ...
This database could help descendants of enslaved people learn about their ancestry
WLRN Miami· 3 days agoAncestry.com has released a new free database of tens of thousands of old newspaper records about formerly enslaved people. The company hopes it will help fill historical gaps for Black Americans.
Discovering your family received 40 acres—only to have them seized back
Mother Jones· 3 days ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Eva Longoria Shares How "Cousin" Meryl Streep Confused Their Costars
E! News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEva Longoria and Meryl Streep learned they are distant relatives, with Eva joking Meryl confused...
Doctor Who, episode 7 review: a properly scary baddie comes to town – after acres of bloated plot
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA lesson we can all learn in this age of Ancestry.com is be careful when you look into your past....
"I built a family tree – and found the answer to a lifelong question"
Cosmo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWant to learn more about your family history? Here's how to go about building your own family tree...
What is forensic genetic genealogy? Technique used in Rachel Morin case is scantly regulated
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoBALTIMORE — Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to...
A Stranger Invited Me to Our Family's Reunion
Thrillist Food & Drink· 4 days agoIt was the middle of June in Jackson, Mississippi, where temperatures were in the mid 90s. Eight years earlier, a woman named Angela Weathers had sent me...
CNN’s Bakari Sellers, our obsession with our roots, spicy food science
WHYY· 3 days agoThere was a lot of hope in 2020 that when the Black Lives Matter movement expanded after the murder of George Floyd, it would rectify some of the racial injustices in America. Then, advertisements ...
He died for freedom. She’s making sure he’s not forgotten
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAccompanying Camille to France for the upcoming ceremony will be many relatives of the men who died,...