“A study has now found that some of the ancestors of Native Americans in the Americas included people from China! It does appear counterintuitive as China and the US are separated by the vast Pacific Ocean and human migrations, particularly in prehistoric periods did not appear to involve crossing of large water bodies. It was …
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Finding Non-Digitized Obits
May 12, 2023 Although many newspapers are now digitized, some are still only available offline. Typically, undigitized newspapers tend to be smaller papers from rural areas – exactly the papers most likely to have published an obit for our ancestors. Luckily, there are ways to obtain obits, even if a newspaper is not available online. …
Shogan Confirmed by U.S. Senate as 11th Archivist of the United States
The following is a press release written by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The United States Senate voted today to confirm Dr. Colleen Shogan as the 11th Archivist of the United States. Nominated by President Biden on August 3, 2022, Shogan will begin her tenure as the head of the National Archives and …