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For Hispanic and Latino Families, Genealogy Research Comes With Its Own Set of Issues

Lee esta historia en español aquí.  Josie Cavazos was 15 when her mother died of ovarian cancer.  Nearly five decades later, the 62-year-old still wishes she could have asked her mother about her childhood or how she came to wait tables for 20 years at Home Cafe, which became Andy’s Home Cafe in 1977. “I didn’t realize when …

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PBS Puts Lineup Industries’ Long Lost Family at Centre of New Genealogy FAST Channel

Long Lost Family is presented by Nicky Campbell and Davina McCall US pubcaster PBS has picked up 12 seasons of the UK version of long-running genealogy format Long Lost Family from Dutch distributor Lineup Industries to help feed its slew of new FAST channels. PBS unveiled a major expansion of its activities in the free ad-supported streaming …

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Hirono and Markey introduce Public Archives Resiliency Act to Protect Vital Records from Climate Impacts

Following the 2023 fires that destroyed or severely damaged eight historic sites managed by the nonprofit Lahaina Restoration Foundation—resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of artifacts and records from the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom—US Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the Public Archives Resiliency Act.  The proposed …

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