Anne Knowles believes that places provide important information about historical events. The University of Maine professor and graduate coordinator in the History Department has made an academic career studying the relationship between geographical circumstances and major societal shifts, exploring topics from Welsh emigration to the United States to why American entrepreneurs struggled to match the …
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Ancestry Launches Consumer Genetic Health Testing as a Rival to 23andMe
The following is a press release written by Ancestry: Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, today announced the launch of AncestryHealth® powered by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), signifying a new era in consumers’ access to important information about their health. Designed to help people understand their risk for developing certain inheritable …
Appalshop Staff Working Hard to Preserve Archived Items Damaged in Kentucky Flood
This is a follow-up story to my previous article, Kentucky’s Floods Took Appalachian History With Them, published at https://eogn.com/page-18080/12876700 on August 8: Decades worth of Appalachian history was damaged in the flash flood three weeks ago. Flood water broke through the Appalshop archive in Whitesburg, which held over fifty years of history. Now, a lot …