Mixed race, mulattos, coloureds, multiracial and a multiple number of more derogatory terms have been used to describe those of us who are of mixed origin. In Southern Africa, where I hail from, the term used is Coloured and the biggest and oldest of the community is the Cape Coloured. During the pre-production of ‘I’m [...]
Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, proudly announces it has teamed up with NBC as sponsor of the upcoming “Who Do You Think You Are?” television series in the USA. Ancestry.com provided important research for the show, including tracing the roots of the seven celebrities featured.
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The Alien Arrivals Collection documents the arrival of more than 610,000 immigrants into the UK between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The collection includes some of the earliest surviving records of immigrants recorded under the Aliens Act 1793. The records go online for the first time at Ancestry.co.uk
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All birth, marriage and death records from the National Archives collection of Non-Parochial, Foreign and Maritime Registers can now be found online at BMDRegisters.co.uk
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Not content with being the centre of internet genealogy research, being the home of the useful Family Search website – http://www.familysearch.org/, Utah looks set to help genealogists and other lay people understand a bit more about genetics. Two Web sites created at the University of Utah were awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in [...]
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A special London edition of Ancestors, the family history magazine from The National Archives, is out now. It investigates what you can find at the London Metropolitan Archives through the lives of one Hackney family, study the history of the 18th century coffee house and learn about London's lure for migrants.
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(McMaster University) Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery were surprised when DNA testing on a set of bones revealed East Asian ancestry.
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