In a rare joint statement, the archivist and deputy archivist of the United States said Tuesday that the 1970s-era Equal Rights Amendment cannot be certified without further action by Congress or the courts, as Democrats press President Joe Biden to act unilaterally on its ratification before he leaves office next month. The five-decade push to amend the …
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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 …
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 …