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Smithsonian Magazine Cover reads "Why Genealogy is Bunk!
Researchers Seek DNA Link to Lost Colony
TIME Roanoke Island, N. C.
Researchers believe they may be able o use DNA to uncover the fate of the Lost Colony which vanished shortly after more than 100 people settled on Roanoke Island in 1587. Using genealogy, deeds and historical..... read more.
Mary Penner: Researchers use Standard to verify findings
The 1860 census listed my ancestors age as 27, born in Ohio. That suggests a girth date about 1833 - handy information. Yet, when I looked at the 1870 census, his birthplace had migrated back to New York, and he was now 47 years old. Math isn't my strong suit, but adding 20 years to his age after just 10 years doesn't.... read more.
Germany Agrees "Public can view Nazi Death Camp Records
WLNS in Lansing, Michigan
WASHINGTON Germany says it's changing its position and
will now help open the Nazi death camp archives to the public.
Germany's justice minister says her country will work with the U-S to
revise an international treaty governing the records of some 17 (m)
million Holocaust victims.....
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Canadian Genealogy News
History of the Census of Canada
Canada's first census was initiated by Intendant Jean
Talon in 1666. The census counted the colony's 3,215 inhabitants and
recorded their age, sex, marital status and occupation. In light of the
need for information to help plan and develop the Colony of New France,
Talon did much of the data collection personally, visiting settlers
throughout the colony.
The years leading up to 1871 (Canada's first national census) saw.....
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UK Genealogy News
Mirror.co.uk
THE 1841 census for England and Wales has been
published online.
Documenting the population on June 6, it records Queen Victoria in
Buckingham Palace and Charles Dickens in Devonshire Terrace, London.
It was the only census available to the public that had not been put on
the web. Now, records from 1841 to 1901 taking in about 165 million
names are available online.....read
more.
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plus millions of names in genealogy records at Ancestry.co.uk!
What secrets lurk in your family's past?
Hampstead and Highgate Express, London, England.
THE BBC's hugely successful programme Who Do You Think You Are? has tapped into a growing fascination with family history. Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman's emotion as he discovered his maternal great-great-grandmother was denied poor relief because she had....... read more.