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Ancestry and Guinness Team Up to Help Families Find Irish Ancestors This St. Patrick’s Day

The following is a press release issued by Ancestry.com: Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, today announced it has digitized more than 1.6 million historical records from the Guinness Storehouse Archives. For the first time, people can use Ancestry to discover if Ireland’s most iconic brewery is part of their family legacy—just in time for St. …

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The Watauga (North Carolina) Democrat Newspaper is now Online

The following announcement was written by the employees of Digital NC: The 1966-1970 issues of the Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) are now available online at Digital NC, thanks to our partner, the Watauga County Public Library.  Browse through this weekly paper to see the happenings of Boone over half a century ago! Weekly marriage announcements, birth announcements, and obituaries are sure to …

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U.S. National Archives Remembers America’s First Ladies

The following announcement was written by the employees at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: First Ladies have always been prominent figures in the political and social life of the United States. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan led a panel discussion at the National Archives …

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