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Books Unbanned Stories Highlight the Struggles of Young People in Accessing What They Want to Read

Here is an article that is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, it is abput a subject that interests me and I would like to share it: A 13-year-old from Arkansas wasn’t allowed to use Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give for …

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A Mom Found a Jawbone in Her Son’s Rock Collection. 22 Years Later, Genealogy Researchers ID’d the Remains of a US Marine

More than 20 years after a mother found a human jawbone hidden in her son’s rock collection, genetic genealogy experts have unraveled the discovery and identified the partial remains of a US Marine Corps captain. Adding to the decades-long mystery was that 30-year-old Capt. Everett Leland Yager, who died in a military training exercise in …

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(+) Addressing the Long-Term Future of Your Genealogy Society

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Please do not forward this article on to others without the author’s permission.  NOTE: This essay contains various personal viewpoints. I travel frequently and spend a lot of time with the officers and members of various genealogical societies. Almost everywhere I …

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