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Chilean-American Adoptee Reunites with His Family 42 Years After He Was Stolen From Them

There is a fascinating story involving a stolen infant. Thanks to a DNA kit from MyHeritage, the infant (now an adult) was reunited with his birth mother. You can read the full story in the MyHeritage Blog at: https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/08/chilean-american-adoptee-reunites-with-his-family-42-years-after-he-was-stolen-from-them/

One Hundred Years Ago

September 8, 2023 Today would have been my father’s 100th birthday. Carl Victor Fernelius was born at home in the small Utah town of South Weber on September 6, 1923. Although it was only one hundred years ago, my father was born into a world that was very different from today.   On the day …

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UCR California Digital Newspaper Collection Receives Grant to Archive Regional Newspapers Serving Black Communities

UC Riverside’s California Digital Newspaper Collection, or CDNC, has received a $321,282 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program, or NDNP, which is managed by the Library of Congress. The CDNC is one of several digital humanities projects within UCR’s Center for Bibliographical Studies …

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