A Facebook post has claimed that the investment management firm BlackRock owns 75% of the genealogy company Ancestry. This spawned other claims that BlackRock now owns the ANCESTRY.com DNA database and lots of other personal information of its customers. Like many other claims posted to Facebook (now called meta.com), there is but one problem with …
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BlackRock Doesn’t Own 75% of Ancestry
A Facebook post has claimed that the investment management firm BlackRock owns 75% of the genealogy company Ancestry. This spawned other claims that BlackRock now owns the ANCESTRY.com DNA database and lots of other personal information of its customers. Like many other claims posted to Facebook (now called meta.com), there is but one problem with …
Laird Towle, R.I.P.
Laird Charles Towle passed away peacefully at home on April 20, 2022. In 1962 he completed his formal education with a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia. He worked in that field for twenty years, principally at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. In 1968 he became seriously interested in genealogical research, …