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May 2024 Newsletter
Melissa Davenport Berry writes: My focus for this series covers three brave 17th century Quaker women: Lydia Wardwell, Deborah Wilson, and Margaret Brewster. They were among the many dames who protested the orthodox Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s.
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Gena Philibert-Ortega writes: Countless online and in-print articles have been written with the goal of helping family historians organize their research, office space, computers, and mobile devices. One of the first steps to organizing or keeping organized is to make decisions about decluttering, including what to toss!
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Jane Hampton Cook writes a follow-up to her earlier story about a 1939 Easter concert when Black contralto Marian Anderson sang to an integrated audience of 75,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial – after not being allowed to perform in DAR’s Constitution Hall.
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Currently, GenealogyBank features over 15,000 newspapers from all 50 states, with more than 296 million obituaries and death records. Here are details about our most recent addition: a total of 343 titles from 41 states, plus 1 national title and 2 from the District of Columbia – 200 of the 346 titles added this month are newspapers added to GenealogyBank for the first time.
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