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December 2022 Newsletter
Melissa Davenport Berry writes: Today I look at the lineage of British stateman, soldier, and author Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), born to English nobleman Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill and his American heiress wife Jennie Jerome – noted to be the first of the “Dollar Princesses” from America to marry into the British aristocracy.
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Katie Rebecca Garner writes: Death certificates hold a wealth of information for family historians, and should be one of the key documents in a genealogist’s search.
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Gena Philibert-Ortega writes: Some of my favorite finds are those that appear when I’m looking for something else in old newspapers. A recent find is a series of one-panel comic illustrations appearing in 1940s newspapers called “American Heroes” by Moe and Stan Leff.
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Currently, GenealogyBank features over 13,000 newspapers from all 50 states, with more than 260 million obituaries and death records. Here are details about our most recent addition: a total of 110 titles from 27 states, plus 4 from the District of Columbia – 56 of the 114 titles added this month are newspapers added to GenealogyBank for the first time!
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