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National Underwear Day: Even underwear can lead to an ancestor’s workplace
National Underwear Day is August 5th. Learn how factory payrolls, union archives, and a mill’s street address can trace a garment worker ancestor’s life.
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Elder Oral History Questions That Preserve Lives
Elder Oral History: Maggie Kuhn fought forced retirement and changed how America sees aging. Ask these oral history questions before your elder relatives’ stories are lost forever.
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The Knocker Upper and Other Archaic Occupations That Sound Absolutely Filthy (But Aren’t)
The Knocker Upper and Other Archaic Occupations That Sound Absolutely Filthy (But Aren’t)
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Kindle Rewards Points August 13: 50 Years of Left-Handers Day Meets Kindle Rewards!
Kindle Rewards Points August 13: One day only earn 2x Kindle Rewards Points. Celebrate 50 years of Left-Handers Day and build your genealogy library while it lasts.
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Left-Handers Day Turns 50: Time to Give Grandma’s Twisted Wrist Its Due
Left-Handers Day turns 50 on August 13, 2026. Here’s how to find the “corrected southpaw” hiding in your family tree, and why school records hold the proof.
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The IBM PC Turns 45: A Love Letter to the Beige Box That Ruined Your Fridays and Saved Your Family Tree
The IBM PC Turns 45: The 5150 debuted August 12, 1981. Forty-five years later, here’s what that beige box did to offices, modems, and the genealogy research you do today.