Is this the wave of the future? Multiple libraries working together to combine the efforts of their genealogy departments to the benefit of library patrons? From an article by Will Sheeline published in the LI (Long Island) HERALD web site: Numerous public libraries on the North Shore have banded together to offer library patrons a …
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Five North Shore Long Island, New York Libraries Are Working Together for Their Genealogy Patrons
Is this the wave of the future? Multiple libraries working together to combine the efforts of their genealogy departments to the benefit of library patrons? From an article by Will Sheeline published in the LI (Long Island) HERALD web site: Numerous public libraries on the North Shore have banded together to offer library patrons a …
A Landmark Study Opens a New Possible Way for Black Americans to Trace Their Ancestry
Researchers have connected the DNA from enslaved individuals buried in a Maryland village to nearly 42,000 present-day descendants. In 1979, workers expanding a Maryland highway came across a forgotten cemetery containing the bodies of enslaved people from the 1800s. They lived in what is known as Catoctin Furnace, a former ironworking village. About 30 bodies …