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New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 8 March 2021

The following announcement was written by the folks at FamilySearch.org: FInd your ancestors on FamilySearch this week in 3M new France, Mayenne Parish and Civil Registrations 1427–1897, Insee Social Security Death Index 1970–2019, plus 2M more Catholic Church records from Germany, Bavaria 1650–1875, North Rhine-Westphalia 1580–1975, Bolivia 1566–1996, and the Dominican Republic 1590–1955. Search expanded country collections for England, Germany, Jamaica, Peru, S. Africa and the US (Indiana, Iowa, Virginia and Washington). Discover these new records and images by clicking …

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CNN Interviews MyHeritage CEO Gilad Japhet on Deep Nostalgia™

If you have been following all the stories about MyHeritage’s new Deep Nostalgia™ app that has gone viral (30 million animations created in the first few days since release) in social media, various news stories, and elsewhere, you probably will be interested in a new interview published in a video on CNN International. The MyHeritage …

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How to Preserve Water-Soaked Books and Papers in an Emergency

Hurricane season will be upon us in a few months. Melting snow will cause some major flooding even before that, typically in March or April. We should learn from the experiences of past storms. Recent hurricanes and flooding taught all of us again that paper is a very fragile storage medium for old records. However, …

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