Tomorrow: Wednesday: February 10, 2016
Irish Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Osceola Room at the Chula Vista Recreation CenterConferences Leave You Hungry for More? Try An Institute!
Ancestry
"Whether brought on by frustration, desperation, or total lack of ideation, we all hit that point where we look in the mirror and wonder if we’ll ever really find Aunt Mary. If your brick wall begins to feel impossible to scale, I have some advice: to learn more about your ancestors, you might need to learn more about genealogy first."
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Black History: Remembering Struggles, Sacrifice and Service:
Fold3
"Throughout U.S. History, African Americans have played an integral part in the development and achievement of this country. Fold3 is now revealing a side of the African American story that few have seen before. View more than a million rare photos and documents for Free during February."
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Finding Your Ancestor’s Story:
GenealogyBank
"Everyone loves a story – and a story is infinitely better when it involves your family. RootsTech presentations this week have been stressing the importance of telling the stories of our ancestors’ lives – but the government records and official documents we rely on often provide cold, dry facts and not a lot of information to fill in a story. Stories require context and detail.
That’s where a collection of newspapers, such as GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, really helps a genealogist."
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GenealogyBank
"Everyone loves a story – and a story is infinitely better when it involves your family. RootsTech presentations this week have been stressing the importance of telling the stories of our ancestors’ lives – but the government records and official documents we rely on often provide cold, dry facts and not a lot of information to fill in a story. Stories require context and detail.
That’s where a collection of newspapers, such as GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, really helps a genealogist."
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Woman, 82, Tracks Down And Meets 96-Year-Old Birth Mother:
NaplesHerald
"Eighty-two years after she was born to a teenage girl and put up for adoption, Betty Morrell finally has met her 96-year-old birth mother, thanks to the dogged persistence of her granddaughter during 20 years of searching."
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How DNA And ‘Recreational Genealogy’ Are Making A Case For Reparations For Slavery:
The Guardian
"More than a decade in the writing, scholar Alondra Nelson’s new book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations and Reconciliation After The Genome has been published at an appropriate moment. Through DNA, the book examines the construction of race in the contemporary United States and offers new ways to think about it, from the kind of “post-racial” social construction of blackness in Rachel Dolezal to the essentialist, biologically determined (and intellectually inferior) notion of blackness promulgated by Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court."
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NaplesHerald
"Eighty-two years after she was born to a teenage girl and put up for adoption, Betty Morrell finally has met her 96-year-old birth mother, thanks to the dogged persistence of her granddaughter during 20 years of searching."
Continue reading...
How DNA And ‘Recreational Genealogy’ Are Making A Case For Reparations For Slavery:
The Guardian
"More than a decade in the writing, scholar Alondra Nelson’s new book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations and Reconciliation After The Genome has been published at an appropriate moment. Through DNA, the book examines the construction of race in the contemporary United States and offers new ways to think about it, from the kind of “post-racial” social construction of blackness in Rachel Dolezal to the essentialist, biologically determined (and intellectually inferior) notion of blackness promulgated by Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court."
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This Day In History: 9 February
1799: The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
1825: The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
1864: Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
1773 Birthday: William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.
1799: The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
1825: The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
1864: Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
1773 Birthday: William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.
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