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Storing Digital Family History
(Stories of Interest)
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Jean Powers
Associate Editor
Seattle Times Q&A/Technology columnist Patrick Marshall
answers a reader question
about how best to ensure that photos in a time capsule will last for 100 years.
Posted by Jean Powers at 2/16/2012 3:10 PM
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Long-lost Identities of Slaves Uncovered in Old Virginia Papers
(Stories of Interest)
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Jean Powers
Associate Editor
A new
website
, "Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names," the first online resource to list slaves' names across all of slaveholding Virginia, has revealed the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents.
Posted by Jean Powers at 2/16/2012 1:05 PM
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Family’s Secret Now in the Open: Cousins Track Down Their Hidden Black and Jewish Ancestry
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Jean Powers
Associate Editor
Cousins researching their genealogy discovered “
that their family hadn't come from Scotland after all but from Jamaica
.”
Posted by Jean Powers at 2/16/2012 3:05 AM
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