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Proving Native ancestry complicated process
Tahlequah Daily Press, Okla. via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMay 23—A common misunderstanding for those who use a DNA test to search for ancestors and find an American Indian marker is that the test can determine a specific tribe. " ...
Does military service run through your family tree? Discover it with Fold3
WTRF Wheeling· 2 days agoSTEUBENVILLE, Ohio (WTRF) — Does your family have a veteran in its past? Even if you’ve only heard about one from relatives, the Steubenville library invites you to discover the militar…
Stories Behind The Stars
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMay 25—PLATTSBURGH — Jacqueline Stewart, a retired Plattsburgh City Schools history teacher and genealogist, has researched Staff Sgt. Benjamin Barnard Bromley for the Stories Behind the Stars ...
A WWII mystery on the Bay of Biscay
Plattsburgh Press-Republican· 2 days agoOnly Krech lived to tell the tale of what happened on that fateful day during World War II, which still haunts Bromley’s family members to this day in...
Famous Celebrities Who Have Spoken About Their Family Ties With the Holocaust
Cinema Blend· 4 days agoThe Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate genocide of European Jews that left 6 million murdered....
The Lynching That Sent My Family North
The Atlantic· 7 days agoLast fall, on an overcast Sunday morning, I took a train from New York to Montclair, New Jersey, to see Auntie, my mother’s older sister. Auntie is our...
Did your relatives serve on D-Day? How to find out
WAVY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFor those interested in learning more about a family member’s specific experiences during the war, there are resources to help identify when and where a...
Former Miss Nevada meets her birth mother 44 years after being abandoned in an airport
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“I think she needed to hear that,” she said. Now a beauty pageant consultant, Hunterton found her...
A fallen NYPD detective gets the hero’s funeral he deserved — 100 years later
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoGREEN-WOOD CEMETERY, Brooklyn (PIX11) — He was a detective killed in the line of duty, but he was...
Stafford native's sacrifice is honored, 80 years after D-Day invasion
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star· 16 hours agoMarvin Lee Boutchyard of Stafford County didn’t know much about his involvement with the D-Day...