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"I built a family tree – and found the answer to a lifelong question"
Cosmo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWant to learn more about your family history? Here's how to go about building your own family tree...
Advances in DNA technologies helping to close some cold cases on the Treasure Coast
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCarde said they're also looking into applying for the federal funding awarded to St. Lucie and...
Online death notice doesn'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....
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.
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...
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...
A Stranger Invited Me to Our Family's Reunion
Thrillist Food & Drink· 5 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,...
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...
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...