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The US Government Wants to Make It Easier for You to Click the ‘Unsubscribe’ Button

From an article by Fatima Hussein published in the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services.  A broad new government initiative, dubbed “Time Is Money,” includes …

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Genetic Genealogy Helps Identify Killer in 1985 Murder of University of Texas at Arlington Student: Cold Case Breakthrough

Forty years after the brutal murder of UTA student Terri McAdams, investigators credit advanced technology and investigative genetic genealogy – which combines crime scene DNA with genealogical research – for the breakthrough that identified her killer. “We finally get to provide answers that the department wanted to provide for nearly 40 years,” Arlington Police Chief …

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Recording Longitudes and Latitudes

Genealogists have always been taught to record our sources of information. We not only record the name of the book or other source of genealogy information, but we also record the location of the building (repository) where we found it. Typically we record the building’s name, street address, city and state. With today’s technology, shouldn’t …

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