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December 29, 2020 / Last updated : December 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Wired: Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree Sleuthing

Wired: Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree Sleuthing. “It used to be that DNA could solve a case only if it matched the genetic profile of someone in a criminal database or an existing suspect. But the recent rise of genetic genealogy—a technique that makes it possible to identify people through relatives who […]

December 1, 2020 / Last updated : December 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Washington Post: A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade

Washington Post: A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade, a free, public clearinghouse that launched Tuesday with seven smaller, searchable databases, will for the first time allow anyone from academic historians to amateur family genealogists to search for individual enslaved […]

November 26, 2020 / Last updated : November 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

The Courier: One million memorial inscriptions gathered in lockdown history project

The Courier: One million memorial inscriptions gathered in lockdown history project. “The collection is the end product of months of painstaking work by volunteers across the country, who spent lockdown transcribing memorials and gravestones from more than 800 burial grounds for the database. ‘Scotland Monumental Inscriptions’ includes details of Sotland’s most notable figures in history, […]

November 25, 2020 / Last updated : November 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Delaware State News: Seaford historians complete newspaper archiving project

Delaware State News: Seaford historians complete newspaper archiving project. “The Seaford Historical Society recently announced the opening of its new online archive of historic Seaford newspapers. The collection was made possible by generous archive and monetary donations, according to Seaford Museum Administrator David Grantz. From the July 5, 1879, issue of The Sussex County Index […]

November 25, 2020 / Last updated : November 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

New York Times: Census Officials Say They Can’t Meet Trump’s Deadline for Population Count

New York Times: Census Officials Say They Can’t Meet Trump’s Deadline for Population Count. “In a blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to strip unauthorized immigrants from census totals used for reapportionment, Census Bureau officials have concluded that they cannot produce the state population totals required to reallocate seats in the House of Representatives until […]

November 14, 2020 / Last updated : November 14, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

The Merciad: Mercyhurst yearbooks digitized

The Merciad: Mercyhurst yearbooks digitized. “Although students from each class might have had their own copy, copies were kept in the Hammermill library and these copies of every yearbook are now available to the entire Mercyhurst community for the first time. All the digitized issues of ‘Prae-terita’ and the Mercyhurst ‘Senior Annual’ can be found […]

November 12, 2020 / Last updated : November 12, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Canberra Times (Australia): National Archives signs $4.4m contract to digitise World War II service records

Canberra Times (Australia): National Archives signs $4.4m contract to digitise World War II service records. “The National Archives of Australia said on Tuesday it had signed contracts worth $4.4 million to digitise more than 650,000 service records. Among the records to be saved, and which will be available for free online, are photographs of servicemen […]

November 10, 2020 / Last updated : November 10, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Associated Press: Census takers say they were told to enter false information

Associated Press: Census takers say they were told to enter false information. “Two census takers told The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning days of the once-a-decade national headcount. Maria Arce said […]

November 1, 2020 / Last updated : November 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

City of Royal Oak, Michigan: Announcing ROPL Daily Tribune Digital Archive

City of Royal Oak, Michigan: Announcing ROPL Daily Tribune Digital Archive. “The Royal Oak Public Library is pleased to announce the completion of a digitization project that offers thousands of pages of newspapers available to search, view, print and clip with a click of a mouse. Past issues of The Royal Oak Daily Tribune are […]

October 31, 2020 / Last updated : October 31, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Mass Live: Salem preserves 400 year old documents, creates online database for public to search about Joshua Ward House, genealogy and more

Mass Live: Salem preserves 400 year old documents, creates online database for public to search about Joshua Ward House, genealogy and more. “Salem’s typically filled with ghost tours, visitors walking through cemeteries and other haunted happenings. This year, however, the city is discouraging visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic. But that doesn’t mean people can’t […]

October 24, 2020 / Last updated : October 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

New York Times: Two Huge Questions Loom as 2020 Census Winds Down

New York Times: Two Huge Questions Loom as 2020 Census Winds Down. “The most contentious census count in memory is nearing an end with questions remaining about the accuracy of its numbers and how they will be used in congressional reapportionment.”

October 24, 2020 / Last updated : October 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Ancestry: Ancestry® Debuts World’s Largest, Searchable Digital Archive of Newspaper Published Historical Wedding Announcements

Ancestry: Ancestry® Debuts World’s Largest, Searchable Digital Archive of Newspaper Published Historical Wedding Announcements . “Today, Ancestry is excited to launch the first phase of the Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index collection, powered by cutting-edge technology. We trained machine learning algorithms to comb through more than 600 million pages of digitized newspapers to extract and identify key […]

October 18, 2020 / Last updated : October 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Help Us Preserve History: Ottoman Greeks of the United States Project (Pappas Post)

Pappas Post: Help Us Preserve History: Ottoman Greeks of the United States Project. “The Ottoman Greeks of the United States Project (OGUS) is a multifaceted interdisciplinary research project at the University of Florida. OGUS was established in 2015 with the support of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and is one of the program’s many […]

October 17, 2020 / Last updated : October 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Arkivverket: Has reached 80 million personal names in the Digital Archive

Translated from the Norwegian, a little awkwardly. Arkivverket: Has reached 80 million personal names in the Digital Archive. “The reason for the gratifying increase is the National Archives’ multi-year collaboration with the international genealogy companies Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch (AMF). These have helped to make the priest’s entries in church books up to the end […]

October 14, 2020 / Last updated : October 14, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

NBC News: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end census count early

NBC News: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end census count early. “The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively allowed the government to stop the census count immediately, blocking a lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to continue gathering census information in the field until the end of October.”

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