Dead man may tell a tale: Cape Cod museum tests DNA from pirate ship – yet another genetic genealogy tale and attempt to solve a history mystery

10 Things You Didn’t Know about Rachel Maddow’s Roots – P.S. If you happen to like this, would greatly appreciate it if you’d “clap” by clicking on the little gray hands at the bottom left of the article. You can do so up to 50 times. Thanks!

Turkey shuts down genealogy service after overload of inquiries – I remember way back when this happened to the Ellis Island site upon launch.

Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood – Raise your hand if you think you’re pretty good at reading messy handwriting in old documents, too.

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Airman Missing From World War II Accounted For (Spence, H) – Welcome home, 1st Lt Homer A. Spence. Honored to have researched your family.

Calling Up the Ancestors: Genealogist Megan Smolenyak – Love what I do!

Rachel Maddow: Trump’s TV Nemesis – So there’s an otherwise well-researched and written article about Rachel Maddow, but once again, that old name-was-changed-at-Ellis-Island myth is in there. Pls look at my first few comments to see the reality.

Summerland World War II vet reunited with memento after 73 years

Photo Credit: Tom Thai under Creative Commons license

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