Interested in your genealogy but unsure where to begin? Come to an informative workshop on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the World Heritage Center, 3106 Roosevelt Ave. in San Antonio. At the workshop — free and open to the public — representatives from the San Antonio Public Library’s Texana/Genealogy Department will …
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Ancestry Wants Your Dusty VHS Tapes—and Here’s Why
By buying iMemories, Ancestry is betting on a future where DNA, old home videos, and AI create personalized family films. Home-movies-and-photos digitizer service iMemories was scooped up by genealogy company Ancestry, a bet by the ancestry giant that subscribers who already spend their money on DNA kits and pour their time into building family trees …
Hidden Object Puzzles Reveal More Than the History They Depict in New Issues of The Taylorsville Times
Thanks to funding from our partner, Alexander County Library, over 3,000 issues of The Taylorsville Times (Taylorsville, N.C.) spanning from 1927 to 1996 are now available to peruse on DigitalNC. This weekly newspaper has focused on informing readers of local, national, and global news for around a century. Around the 1920s, The Mountain Scout and Taylorsville Times newspapers merged to form The Taylorsville Times and …