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Ancestry Sued over Posting Yearbooks Online
January 1, 2021 A little over a year ago Ancestry debuted their enhanced yearbook collection featuring yearbooks from middle schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges from all over the United States. Many of us in the genealogical community wrote columns and articles about the new feature and promoted it as a fun new …
End of Year Genealogy Society Renewals
December 24, 2020 Today is Christmas Eve, and you probably have all of your Christmas shopping finished (finally!), but there’s still time send a few genealogy gifts to your friends and relatives. Heck, there’s still time to send yourself a treat or two – just in case Santa doesn’t come through with what you really …
The Winter Solstice
December 18, 2020 In just a few days, the Winter Solstice will be here; this year December 21 is the date of the shortest day. For millennia humans have celebrated the day when the sun begins its journey towards longer and warmer days. As a genealogist, you may be especially aware of the changes of …