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Kent State Shootings: Your Memory Is Living History Your Descendants Will Treasure
Kent State Shootings: Your Memory Is Living History Your Descendants Will Treasure Where were you when you heard about the Kent State Shootings? If you’re old enough to remember May 4, 1970, that question probably just stirred something in your chest. Maybe you were at work, or school, or sitting at the kitchen table when…
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Don’t Be Fooled By Family Myths: The Genealogy Lies Your Relatives Keep Telling (And You Keep Believing)
Don’t Be Fooled By Family Myths: The Genealogy Lies Your Relatives Keep Telling (And You Keep Believing) A Brief History of Being Made a Fool April Fool’s Day has been making people look ridiculous since at least the 16th century — some historians trace it to France’s shift from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,…
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Mom and Pop Business Day: How to Trace Your Family’s Small Business Legacy Through Genealogy Records
Mom and Pop Business Day: How to Trace Your Family’s Small Business Legacy Through Genealogy Records Close your eyes for a moment and picture it: the jingle of a bell above a shop door, the smell of fresh sawdust or baked bread, the proprietor—your grandmother, maybe, or a great-uncle you only know from a faded…
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I Was Drugged, Assaulted, and Left for Dead. Three Years Later, I’m Breaking My Silence.
I Was Drugged, Assaulted, and Left for Dead. Three Years Later, I’m Breaking My Silence. It has taken me exactly three years to find the words, but as a genealogist, I know that the holes in a family’s history are often where the most important truths live. I’ve spent my life documenting the lives of…
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MyStories by MyHeritage: Why You Need to Capture Your Family’s Stories Now
MyStories by MyHeritage: Why You Need to Capture Your Family’s Stories Now MyStories by MyHeritage: Listen, I’m going to be blunt: we’re running out of time. Not with our research—with our people. The relatives who hold our family stories in their heads, who remember the Depression years and the war years, who know why Great-Grandma…
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The Day the Music Died: Preserving Your Family’s 1950s Cultural Memories
The Day the Music Died: Preserving Your Family’s 1950s Cultural Memories The Day the Music Died: Sixty-seven years ago today, on February 3, 1959, a small plane carrying rock and roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson crashed into an Iowa cornfield shortly after takeoff. The tragedy that would become…
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One Small Step, One Giant Family History Conversation
One Small Step: Turn July 20, 1969 into a genealogy goldmine. Learn how to capture Apollo 11 memories through oral history interviews before they’re gone.
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MyHeritage Omni Discount: 50% Off Runs July 20-24 Only
MyHeritage Omni Discount: Get 50% off MyHeritage Omni before July 24: unlimited trees, 40 billion records, AI Scribe, OldNews archives, and more.
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National Ice Cream Day: Family History and Food Memories
National Ice Cream Day 2026 falls on July 19. Learn how dairy farm censuses, soda fountains, and old family recipes can crack open your genealogy research.