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Welcome to DverCITY.com! A diverse site for diverse cultures in a diverse world, online since 1999. Preservation of your family history and ancestry legacies are vital for the passing down of cultures and traditions from year to year, century to century, millenium to millenium.
We're here to help in your important quest of mapping out your family tree and tracing your roots. There are billions of records and thousands of databases available on the Internet that store valuable Census information, surname lists, social security and death indexes, vital records, and military records.
PROVO, Utah, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As the highly anticipated Ken Burns documentary "The War" premieres, Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, encourages Americans to honor the legacies of their family members or loved ones who served in WWII by preserving their unique stories online. For the 81 percent of Americans who say they have had a family member or loved one serve in the military*, Ancestry.com provides a wide range of services to archive and explore their family's military history, such as recording oral histories with its new audio storytelling service.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, America loses approximately 1,000 WWII veterans every day. Their vanishing legacies have sparked a growing consciousness to capture their stories, even as Ken Burns and PBS showcase the "everyday WWII American heroes" in the upcoming 14-hour long documentary "The War." Ancestry.com is the perfect venue for honoring these everyday heroes and preserving their extraordinary stories.
On Ancestry.com, individuals can create family trees with biographical profiles dedicated to remembering the personal experiences of their ancestors, including those who served in the military. As part of these profiles, users can upload photos, create a timeline of life events, write stories and add scanned images such as letters written from the battlefront, service awards and other precious documents. Now, users can initiate audio recording directly from their family tree, recording conversations over the telephone or through a computer microphone. The new audio tool provides a free, easy method to create and preserve family oral histories. With a webcam, an individual can also record and archive video.
"World War II impacted more lives than any previous conflict. It's time to honor the generation of Americans who took up this cause," said Tim Sullivan, president and CEO of The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com. "We urge people to talk to their families, gather information about their WWII loved ones and archive their experiences before it's too late."
For those interested in delving deeper into their military roots, Ancestry.com hosts the largest collection of U.S. military records available and searchable online, featuring more than 90 million names that span the 1600s through Vietnam. This week, Ancestry.com added two new collections pertaining specifically to WWII, including:
-- WWII Military Personnel (MIA/Lost at Sea) -- More than 90,000 records
of WWII service men who were missing in action or lost at sea from 1941
to 1946.
-- WWII "Stars and Stripes" Newspaper -- More than 145,000 digitized pages
from this military newspaper published during WWII in the European
theater. This week, Ancestry.com added 50,000 images to this
collection.
Other WWII databases found on Ancestry.com include:
-- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records -- Records for more than 8
million individuals who enlisted in the army between 1938 and 1946.
-- U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards -- "Old man's draft"
records include more than 6 million records filled out by men between
the ages of 42 and 64 in 1942.
-- United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942-1945) -- Only complete online
collection of rare WWII counter-propaganda newsreels.
-- Young American Patriots Military Yearbooks - A series of commemorative
yearbooks featuring photos and short bios of approximately 60,000
soldiers who served in WWII.
* Based on an August 2007 MarketTools, Zsample survey.
About Ancestry.com
With 24,000 searchable databases and titles, Ancestry.com is the No. 1 online source for family history information. Since its launch in 1997, Ancestry.com has been the premier resource for family history, simplifying genealogical research for millions of people by providing them with many easy-to-use tools and resources to build their own unique family trees. The site is home to the only complete online U.S. Federal Census collection, 1790-1930, as well as the world's largest online collection of U.S. ship passenger list records featuring more than 100 million names, 1820-1960. Ancestry.com is part of The Generations Network, Inc., a leading network of family-focused interactive properties, including MyFamily.com, Rootsweb.com, Genealogy.com and Family Tree Maker. In total, The Generations Network properties receive 10.4 million unique visitors worldwide and over 450 million page views a month ((C) comScore Media Metrix, March 2007).
Source: Ancestry.com
Web site: http://www.ancestry.com/
On April 17, 2001, a new Web site went online dedicated exclusively to Ellis Island. Four out of ten Americans descend from an immigrant that entered America via Ellis Island, at the New York Harbor. The Web address for the Ellis Island Immigration Museum's site is ellisisland.com.
Click here for more information on tracing your Ellis Island ancestors.
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Trenton, NJ - (3/1/04) New Book called ROOTS RECOVERED! The How To Guide for Tracing African-American and West Indian Roots Back to Africa and Going There FOR FREE OR ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET. Roots Recovered is a travel guide unlike any other. Not only does it tell you how to fly to Africa for free or very cheaply, it guides the reader on how to trace your roots back to your specific tribal grouping utilizing a combination of traditional genealogy methods, the Internet and DNA technology.
Roots Recovered also contains bullets of information that range from African history, psychology, obtaining passports and visas to very specific country information. However, unlike other African travel books, the purpose of Roots Recovered is to use African travel as a vehicle to open the door for understanding our psychology, history and to develop a positive Black self-concept for future growth. Roots Recovered is the guide for anyone of African decent who wants to travel to Africa.
Roots Recovered can now be purchased via the author's website www.rootsrecovered.com as an e-book and as a paperback which be purchased from the author's website or wholesale from the publisher at www.booklocker.com
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
James E. White
James is an African American who obtained his undergraduate degree
from Howard University and his law degree from New York Law School.
James met his co-author Jean when Jean hired James for a legal
matter. The two fast became good friends and together they have
traveled extensively in West Africa, on and off the beaten path.
Together they have crossed country borders by land and by air,
experienced power outages and have stayed in tourist hotels and
inexpensive local lodgings. James was eventually married in Senegal
West Africa in a traditional ceremony and his first child was
born there. He is an African art enthusiast and has a penchant
and knowledge of African history and culture and frequently travels
there.
Jean-Gontran Quenum
Jean-Gontran is an African who is a native of the Republic on
Benin and a citizen of France. He obtained his undergraduate degree
from the University of Benin and his MBA from Portiere University
in France. Jean is a businessman whose dealings in telecommunications,
real estate and farming have taken him all over West Africa and
other parts of the continent. He has avidly collected African
art and this has taken him to remote areas in search of the best
deals. James' first trip to Africa was with Jean-Gontran in which
Jean-Gontran showed him the tourist side and the native side of
travel and living in Africa.
distributed through BlackPR.com/BlackNews.com
by Holly Bliss
I’ve been researching my family history for over six years. About three years ago I discovered some strange connections across two different family lines. Upon showing my father his twisted roots he laughed and said, “I guess family reunions back then were good places to get a date.”
~*~
I’m not suggesting you write about kissing cousins (unless you’re going for the “forbidden love” thing) but a family reunion is full of different love dynamics.
Sibling – Friendship, jealousy and more.
Parental – People are always trying to separate themselves from their parents and retain their self-identity in real life - fiction should take advantage of this potential way of identifying with the reader.
Cousin – Friendships and rivalries similar to siblings.
Aunt – She’s another “mom” to turn to or dodge depending on the situation and character’s personality.
Uncle – They are sometimes dad-like, sometimes like an older brother – generally a jokester whose favorite jokes seem to be those about flatulence. One of my uncles always threatened to sit on me if I didn't go play. (I could be annoying when I wanted to be) I never believed he meant it until he actually plopped me down and sat on me!
Grandparent – Adoration, advice and good old day stories.
NOTE: These are typical so you might want to twist it around and maybe make grandma the jokester or some other interesting change! It makes for fresh writing and reading.
~*~
After checking (and double checking) I found that a brother and a sister married into two families that would later have a story that gave them this strange connection.
They may have met at a family reunion (it’s doubtful since they were 9th or 10th cousins, which helps eliminate the "ewww" factor) but, a woman and her widower father met a man and his widowed mother. They all fell in love and married. The widow and widower became the second marriage of my great grandparents. The woman and man became my grandparents.
These roots ended up not so much twisted as entwined.
Using her writing as paint on the canvas of her life, Holly
Bliss is an eclectic writer, mother of four children, newsletter
editor and author on http://www.Writing.Com/
which is a site for Creative Writers.
© 2006 Holly Bliss. All Rights Reserved.Holly Bliss may be
contacted at
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