Finding Memories

04/01/2022

Todays the day! 1950 census data 🎉

Personally identifiable 1950 census data will be released on Friday. All detailed census data must, by law, be sequestered for 72 years.

02/02/2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/family-trees-fill-gaps-black-people-seeking-ancestral-roots-rcna13998

Black people have been able to connect with the past and give new agency to their identities through building family trees and researching their family histories.

01/25/2022

This article is so important. This is the first I’ve ever heard of Mae Louise Walls Miller.

More than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, there were black people in the Deep South who had no idea they were free. These people were forced to work, violently tortured, and r***d.

11/30/2021

Adopted children face a slew of legal challenges in trying to obtain their original birth certificates. Lawmakers across the country are increasingly granting more access as a basic human right.

11/02/2021

Sale :)

Offer ends 11/24. Terms apply.

10/28/2021

Have you found your body type in your ancestors’ photos? I have!

Strong women who were farmers, and nurses, and mothers who grew and fed babies. All sizes have always existed. The media has shifted this narrative, I guess, since advertisements hit printing presses.

10/26/2021

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Join us on October 25 for a free virtual Tenement Talk on the role of clairvoyants in the world of the Jewish Lower East Side, streamed live from inside our ...