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The Reluctant Traveler

Helen Davey | Posted 04.27.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Pan Am Flight Attendants, Captain John Smith, Genealogical History, Adventure, Golden Age of Travel, Mill Prison in England, " "Finding Your Roots, Revolutionary War, ancestry.com, Surrender of Cornwallis, Travel, "Who Do You Think You Are, Pan Am, Washington at Valley Forge, Comedy News
Helen Davey

I love a good story. I especially love a good story if it's true. And most of all, I love a good story if it's true, and it's about my family. History comes alive for me when I can imagine my own relatives living in different times and places, connected to me, and yet unknown in so many ways.

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Ancestry.com Reportedly Agrees To $1.6 Billion Buyout

Reuters | Posted 01.16.2013 | Technology
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(Reuters) - An investor group led by private equity firm Permira Advisers LLP has agreed to buy genealogy website Ancestry.com Inc for about $1.6 bill...

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Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He's White?

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 10.02.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: ancestry.com, Mixed Race, Slavery, Multiracial, Genealogy, Race, John Punch, Barack Obama Racial Identity, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Race, Video, Black Voices News
Marcia Dawkins

President Obama embodies and embraces tough questions about race like few others. His ever-evolving racial identity questions the construction of the color line.

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Obama's Slave Roots Discovered

The Huffington Post | Danielle Cadet | Posted 08.01.2012 | Black Voices
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President Obama's ancestry has always been a hot topic. Between the birther debates that the Supreme Court dismissed last month to the country's diffe...

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An Ancestral Revolution

Cheryl Wills | Posted 10.17.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: ancestry.com, History, African-Atlantic Genealogical Society, Genealogy, Heritage, Ancestry, Black Voices News
Cheryl Wills

Genealogy may seem like an innocuous hobby, but in this age of smartphones and e-Readers, more and more families are anxious to download two very basic and sometimes profound answers: Who am I and where did I come from?

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Jake Bialer

How Fast Is Google's New Social Network Growing?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jake Bialer | Posted 09.11.2011 | Technology
Read More: ancestry.com, Google, Google Plus Growth, Prediction, Zubin Wadia, Paul Allen, Google Plus, Googles Social Network, Alexa, US Census, Predict the News, Google Plus Users, Technology News

Facebook has over 750 million users. More than 200 million Twitter accounts have been created. So just how big is Google Plus, the social network Goog...

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Custer's First Stand: Old West Point Applications Put Online

AP | CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: West Point, Military History, West Point Applications, Ancestry, ancestry.com, West Point Application Archive, Military, Military Academy, Civil War, History, College News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Years before leading his vastly outnumbered troops to their doom at Little Bighorn, a young George Armstrong Custer was described...

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They're Related?!?

The Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Talk about awkward family reunions. Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are related, according to research done by genealogists at Ancestry.com. Odds are a...

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The Ghosts of America's Past Speak

Cheryl Wills | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: ancestry.com, Ellis Island, Ancestry, Immigration Collection, Ancestors, Immigration, Family Tree, Ellis Island Immigration, Healthy Living News
Cheryl Wills

It's called the U.S. Immigration Collection. Americans who are eager to do more than just connect the dots in their family's tree can listen online to invaluable oral histories of their ancestors.

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