Monday, January 30, 2023

Passenger Lists

This is a link to websites where you can search passenger lists, courtesy of Family Tree magazine.

It includes Ancestry.com, which is available for use in the library only- just click on Research Tools.

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Monday, January 9, 2023

Vietnam Memorial Wall of Faces

 Volunteers organized by the nonprofit Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund have found photos for all of the 58000 Americans who lost their lives in Vietnam. Click here for an article from the Christian Science Monitor about the project.  A link to the Wall of Faces is here.

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Friday, January 6, 2023

Artificial Intelligence and Geneology

Click here for speculation on what's ahead for genealogy in 2023 and beyond, including the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). This article is from the Genealogy Star  blog.


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Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree

 From Ted.com in 2018.   

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