Professor LaKisha Tawanda David of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Reparations Committee will provide Evanston residents who are interested in tracing their family ancestry with free genetic testing kits as a part of a program that’s supported by an Illinois House bill. Illinois HR0453 states the initiative “provides African American descendants of enslaved individuals …
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July 4th Recap, Baltimore Seniors Help Transcribe NARA’s Cursive Holdings, The Olive Branch Petition
The following is a press release created by the (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration: July 4th Recap Did you celebrate Independence Day with the National Archives in Washington, DC? What was your favorite part? The National Anthem? The Fife and Drum Corps? The reading of the Declaration of Independence? The festivities had so much to …
Researchers Note ‘Substantial Recovery’ of Lost Donegal Census Records from 1800s
Hundreds of Donegal census records, thought to have been destroyed in the Public Records Office fires in Dublin in 1922, have been recovered. They are among 60,000 ‘new’ accounts which were released this week by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI). The documents are now freely available online to mark the 103rd anniversary of the Four …