Free Historical Book Collection Online Hits 200,000th Milestone
April 13, 2015 12:04 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, April 13, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Imagine a free virtual online library of rare historical books from all over the world to help you discover rich, unknown details about the...
StoryWorth Sweeps RootsTech Innovator Showdown
February 14, 2015 17:37 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 14, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StoryWorth, a San Francisco start up company that offers an email-based storytelling service, today swept the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, winning...
Laura Bush and Donny Osmond to Share Family Stories at RootsTech
February 04, 2015 16:00 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech 2015, already the largest family history conference in the world, is on track to surpass last year's record of 13,000...
Find Your Family's World War I Veterans in New, Free Military Collections Online
November 10, 2014 14:25 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veterans' Day is a time to recognize the veterans in our lives—to honor their service for our country and show them that we appreciate their...
Massive Online U.S. Obituaries Project Will Help Find Your Ancestors
October 01, 2014 08:06 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch International (FamilySearch.org) and GenealogyBank (GenealogyBank.com) today announced an agreement to make over a billion records from...
Campaign Aims to Gather Your Fondest Grandma Stories
September 19, 2014 06:31 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- If you could share ONE story about your grandma, what would it be? That's the question nonprofit FamilySearch International (FamilySearch.org) is...
New Freedmen's Bureau Records Available for Juneteenth Celebration
June 18, 2014 07:09 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In recognition of Juneteenth, FamilySearch announces the online publication of additional Freedmen's Bureau records—popular historic sources for...
New Online Collection of Civil War Records Released in Observance of Memorial Day
May 22, 2014 10:50 ET
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FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, May 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In conjunction with Memorial Day, FamilySearch.org announced today significant updates to its free Civil War historic record collections online....
Antiques Roadshow Travels to Rapid City, SD
July 05, 2012 14:00 ET
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WGBH
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Jul 5, 2012) -
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BEHIND THE SCENES...
Does Modern Comedy Owe a Debt to African Tribes?
August 30, 2011 13:52 ET
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Author Elizabeth Evans
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 30, 2011) - On the streets of Brooklyn, Harlem, Watts and Compton, they called it "the Dozens."
It was the tradition of hanging out with your friends and...