This is one of the coolest things to hit the genealogy market since Ancestry opened its online doors in 1996. If you love music, then you’re going to love this new Your “Heritage Playlist” where Ancestry has partnered with music-giant Spotify to produce what Ancestry is phrasing “the unique sound […]
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You should stop what you’re doing right now and read “The Last Book Smuggler” by Birutė Putrius! Its pages are a lesson for all humanity about tragedy, hope, and success beautifully woven like a Lithuanian juosta sash as a masterpiece of historical fiction. Although set in Lithuania in 1902, this
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The Arjalon Price House is a bit of American colonial history that is associated with the James Madison Museum of Orange, Virginia. It is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary War structures that is built in the old colonial style, it is often referred to as a ‘cube house.’ It
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Ancestry is the toast of the internet right now with its updated ethnicity estimates. This is just what the DNA company needed as its market shares were sliding in competition with others who were offering higher resolution and increased accuracy as far as “ethnicity estimates” are concerned. For one, Ancestry’s
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This summer I spent 3 weeks in Virginia along with my cousin on a genealogical research trip and one of the highlights was Jamestown! What an awe-inspiring place! As a historian and genealogy buff, I went in there with an absolute sense of reverence for the place as it is, in
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Learning about the history of Ukraine has truly inspired me, there are so many real lessons that I have taken away not only as an American but also as a Lithuanian as our histories are indelibly intertwined. I wanted to share a few perspectives about how the history of Ukraine
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