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Online death notice doesn39;t prove Joe Biden is dead; anyone can update | Fact check
USA Today· 1 day agoA June 13 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a woman navigating through the Ancestry....
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...
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...
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....
On eve of Juneteenth, exploring a personal connection
Axios· 3 days agoMy great-great-grandmother, Francisca Martinez, was a woman of mystery who may have been born 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...
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,...
Archie Moore On Plotting 65,000 Years of Indigenous History
Artnet News· 3 days agoArchie Moore has made history. Not only did he become the first artist from Australia and the first...
Juneteenth: What to know about newest federal holiday and if mail comes Wednesday
Axios· 2 days agoThe growth of Juneteenth as a paid day off for private companies has severely slowed three years after it became a federal holiday, according to a survey from Mercer. Why it matters: The day ...