The Orange Mound Library and Genealogy Center at 5094 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN has been honored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Earlier this week, the library was given the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award. It’s a national award given each year by the Trust.
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NGS Announces Inaugural Cohort of the James Worris Moore Leadership Academy
The following is a press release written by the folks at NGS: The National Genealogical Society (NGS) has announced the inaugural cohort of participants in the newly established James Worris Moore Leadership Academy. The Academy honors the legacy of James Worris Moore (1934–2007), a pioneering African American archivist whose career spanned forty-two years at the …
Montreal Police Have Solved a Nearly 17-Year-Old Cold Case Thanks to DNA
The SPVM announced Wednesday that they solved the murder of Catherine Daviau, a 26-year-old woman killed in her home in the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough in Dec. 2008. Police say the DNA of Jacques Bolduc, who died of natural causes in 2021 at the Archambault Institution, where he was serving a sentence for two robberies and …