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Online death notice doesn't prove Joe Biden is dead; anyone can update | Fact check
USA Today· 3 days agoA June 13 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a woman navigating through the Ancestry....
This database could help descendants of enslaved people learn about their ancestry
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 6 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.
What is forensic genetic genealogy? Technique used in Rachel Morin case is scantly regulated
The Columbian· 21 hours agoAuthorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. Federal ...
"I built a family tree – and found the answer to a lifelong question"
Cosmo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWant to learn more about your family history? Here's how to go about building your own family tree...
A Stranger Invited Me to Our Family's Reunion
Thrillist Food & Drink· 7 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...
Eva Longoria Shares How "Cousin" Meryl Streep Confused Their Costars
E! News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEva Longoria and Meryl Streep learned they are distant relatives, with Eva joking Meryl confused...
Discovering your family received 40 acres—only to have them seized back
Mother Jones· 5 days ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Archie Moore On Plotting 65,000 Years of Indigenous History
Artnet News· 5 days agoArchie Moore has made history. Not only did he become the first artist from Australia and the first...
On eve of Juneteenth, exploring a personal connection
Axios· 5 days agoMy great-great-grandmother, Francisca Martinez, was a woman of mystery who may have been born to...
CNN’s Bakari Sellers, our obsession with our roots, spicy food science
WHYY· 5 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 ...