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17 Nov

Posted at 11:26h in Newsletter

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- THE HAPPIEST AND LEAST HAPPY STATES IN AMERICA! I get Utah, being the happiest state for the reasons they mentioned above. Vermont is the chill part of the Northeast. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska have those good old-fashioned midwestern values. Colorado and Wyoming have the "outdoorsyness" of Utah. In the 60s you have more outdoorsy western states like Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Idaho, and Montana along with brightly-lit Nevada. More midwestern places like North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina bring the mid-eastern states into the rankings, along with New York the cultural icon. In...

26 Dec

Posted at 13:42h in Newsletter

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Apparently, in 1921, Americans who were primarily descendants of the Europeans were asserting their superiority over them. Remember that we recently came through World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic, and we're entering the roaring 20's. ...

02 Oct

Posted at 09:01h in Newsletter

  AMERICANS HAVING HARD FEELINGS AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE UNPOPULAR HERITAGE IS NOT NEW The article on the very top was recently shared on a historical forum. I was surprised to see my great grandfather as a signee. I suspect many of our ancestors had hard feelings against those who descended from countries we were fighting in wars.     DANCESTORS HAS SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS FOR THOSE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR ROOTS! Digital records from the 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/digital-records-19th-century-give-black-families-glimpse-ancestry-rcna2060?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm     GRAVEYARD TREATS! A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make...

16 Dec

Posted at 06:56h in Ancestry Explained

Good morning preservers of the family legacy, A lot of times folks ask us how to preserve their family heirlooms. Of course, our first advice is to capture a digital record of the heirloom and let’s then put that picture into Your Dancestors ancestry book, so you have it stored somewhere else. Here’s some advice from an insurance company: https://www.farmers.com/learn/plan-and-prep/ideas-for-protecting-heirlooms/ Some updates on the use of DNA to solve crimes: Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then the fine print changed. “There are cases that won’t get solved or will take longer to solve,” a Florida law enforcement official said. https://apple.news/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/ While being the family historian...

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