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The debate over Mormons’ posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims flared up again last fall when the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors (AGHS) held a press conference to present its claims the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church) has violated a 1995 agreement to cease such baptisms.  ...
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From the 15th through 19th centuries, the transatlantic slave trade sent an estimated 12.5 million Africans to the New World—the largest forced migration in modern history. As late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European. A new Web site called Voyages sheds...
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When the Stadtarchiv Köln—City Archive of Cologne, Germany—collapsed March 3, two people died, surrounding buildings were irretrievably damaged and more than a thousand years of records were buried in rubble. The 38-year-old archive building contained 65,000 documents, the oldest dating to 922. Holdings—more than...
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Genealogy Web sites are scrambling to digitize yesterday's news.
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What do you get when you mix a bunch of genealogists with how-to classes and an exhibit hall full of software vendors, data services, publishers, photo restorers and genealogy societies? Sounds like a family history conference to us. “Genealogy conferences promote new tools, new sources and new methods available...
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See step-by-step how to access millions of digitized records on FamilySearch’s Record Search Pilot Site.
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The first will I ever tried to read was written in 1850 by my 3rd great-grandfather, John Snow. I remember feeling overwhelmed because I didn't know what to expect, couldn't read the writing and didn't have a clue as to what I was really looking for. Fortunately, Phyllis Quarg...
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These people preserved records or eased access to them, helped others who otherwise wouldn't be able to learn about their family history, or raised the profile of genealogy research.
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