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2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (551+ words) 10 September 2026 09:21 ANC to oppose DA's intervention in case against IEC over late candidate submissions 10 September 2026 09:06 Could AI cure cancer? Tech boss thinks it could happen in our lifetime 10 September 2026 08:34 Corruption-accused Mapisa-Nqakula a no-show in court due to ill health Have…...

3+ day, 22+ min ago   (1037+ words) The entrance to Gortroe cemetery in Co Cork I’d never heard of the Western Sydney University until a few days ago when I was going back over bits and pieces I had written over the last half-century or more. Sixty-five…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (185+ words) DEFIANCE, OHIO – Genealogy enthusiasts and family historians are invited to a free seminar featuring author and genealogist Sunny Morton on Saturday, September 26, at the Serrick Center, 202 E. Sessions Ave., on the Defiance College campus. The program is presented by Defiance…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (186+ words) Author Frank G. Honeycutt’s fascinating exploration of the connection between genealogy and theology takes readers into the lives of two of his ancestors and how their circumstances and actions influenced the person he became. In 1908, Honeycutt’s great-grandfather Sheriff Frank Honeycutt of…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (220+ words) glasgowbell.co.uk Meet the man meticulously cataloguing Glasgow’s dead Chris McKay has been logging tombstones across the city for years. Why is he doing it? We park between sections four and five, on the western side of the cemetery....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (350+ words) CONQUEST, Sask. — A family history project has led an Oxford, England, author to reconnect with relatives in Saskatchewan he never knew existed. Gareth Winrow's latest book, Past Lives, Forgotten Stories: Cobbled Patchworks of History, traces several branches of his family…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (574+ words) Long-lost son meets father and dozens of relatives in an emotional family reunion. For 19 years, Joshua Schneeloch watched parents arrive at a German Catholic orphanage and take other children home. Each time, the same question settled into his young heart:…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (415+ words) Orange City Library's Local Studies Librarian Ruth Bingham. Have you ever wanted to start delving into your family history but don't know where to start? Maybe you are well down the track of putting together your family tree, but just…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (751+ words) I’ve been harbouring a secret for a while, but the time has come to share it, writes Countryman's Daughter columnist Sarah Walker… The study belonging to my dad, Peter Walker, has been saved! I’ve written in the past about my…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1097+ words) Traci Thompson, a genealogy librarian at Braswell Memorial Library, listens to freelance journalist J. Eric Eckard share some of the unexpected findings he uncovered as he dug into the military records of his ancestors. A few years back, I wanted to…...