How technology is being used to preserve memories at risk from climate disasters – Please take 2-3 minutes to watch this. You won’t regret it.

Why didn’t people smile in old photographs? It wasn’t just about the long exposure times. – Why our ancestors didn’t smile in photos (and it’s not just because they had to be still)

Meet the First and Last Immigrants Who Passed Through Ellis Island – Annie & Arne: First and Last through Ellis Island 🗽

Reluctantly Practicing the Art of the Obituary – Suspect this might resonate with a lot of genealogists.

‘I didn’t think it was possible’ – This piece is about one of the soldiers I researched for the Army, and his nephew – one of the most enthusiastic family members I’ve reached out to in a while – is right about DNA. Y-DNA in this instance had died out going back more than 200 years. Fortunately, there were other options.

How Britain’s ‘brown babies’ were hidden away: the secret history of the first mixed race orphanage – I’ve been gently fascinated with this topic ever since one of my Army cases was for a “brown baby” from Germany (sadly killed in Vietnam). Had to go to court to find his bio family, but managed to do so. So many unacknowledged pockets of our collective history.

 

Image: thumbnail from CBS News video