People Wish They'd Asked Relatives About Their Lives-After Discovering Interesting Stories Once They Pass
Most people wish they'd asked relatives more about their lives while they were alive-after discovering stories once they had passed.
Most people wish they'd asked relatives more about their lives while they were alive-after discovering stories once they had passed.
Lena and Yolanda were young girls when they met on a 14-day ocean crossing toward Ellis Island. Now they are reunited as forever friends.
Even as late as the 15th century, map makers were still covering images in illustrations of "sea swine," "sea orms," and "pristers."
More than 30 million documents on the victims of Nazi persecution are now available for free on Ancestry.com for all generations to come.
After a massive tornado hit Joplin, Missouri last year, thousands of families whose homes were destroyed lost their most treasured mementos. But thanks to the dedication and hard work of Abi Almandinger, tornado survivors have been reunited with thousands of old photographs that were blown away with the wind and found by strangers. Her webpage, Joplin's Found Photos, acts as a clearinghouse for photos that had been been blown away by the storm.
White descendants of the nation's first professionally trained African-American doctor gathered in a cemetery on Sunday to dedicate a tombstone at the unmarked grave where he was buried in 1865. Antoinette Martignoni, the 91-year-old great-granddaughter of James McCune Smith, learned recently of the family connection.
This 48-year-old woman had always wondered about her biological family – but upon discovering she now has 22 siblings, she plans on meeting all of them.
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