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SMGF Anniversary Edition | Tuesday, April 3
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This spring, we celebrate not only the 12th anniversary of SMGF, but also the dedication of the James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building on the University of Utah campus. Both the Sorenson Biotechnology Building and SMGF represent Mr. Sorenson’s pioneering foresight and creativity, and we are proud to be part of his legacy.
–The SMGF Team
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On April 2nd, after a long wait of 72 years, the 1940 census will be released, and in a historic first, the collection will emerge online in digitized form. Last year, the National Archives and Records Administration selected Archives.com to build and host a website…
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Tim Tebow arrives in New Jersey, where the Jets practice and play, as the world’s most famous backup quarterback. It is a homecoming, of sorts, centuries in the making, because Tebow appears to be the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of a man from Hackensack…
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It has been recorded that one of the possible causes that eventually escalated into the 1857 manslaughter at Mountain Meadows in Southern Utah was the poisoning of an open spring by the Fancher–Baker party as they crossed the Utah territory on their way…
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Somebody once said somewhere in the world you have a double, you didn’t know about. Ridiculous? Ask Richard Krebs, a Verizon worker who lives in Wallenpaupack Lake Estates.
Krebs and his wife Kathleen raised two sons. In June 2008 they celebrated the birth of their first grandchild…
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Reader Cyndy Bray writes that the will of her third great grandfather, David Coons, filed in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1842, identified one beneficiary as “my natural son George Washington Coons or McDonald by which ever name he may be called.”…
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When he was a student at Yale, Henry Louis Gates Jr. took a course known as "biology for poets." Now the Harvard humanities scholar is a zealot of genetic science.
With a series of specials for PBS starting in 2006, Mr. Gates used a combination of DNA sequencing,…
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Watch a recent webinar that goes beyond the basics in understanding DNA research for genealogists.
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Would you like to obtain the DNA information of an ancestor who died years ago? Do you have any letters that he or she wrote? If so, you may already have the DNA information available. Postage stamps and envelope flaps have been licked for more…
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The 1940 Census is almost here! Are you ready? Archives.com has prepared this infographic to show some of the cool things you can discover about your family in the 1940 Census. It also shows the steps you'll take to find them when the Census is released on April 2…
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This should be a great tool for anyone searching for New York City residents in the 1940 census: the New York Public Library has created a new research tool to help track down past city residents through old telephone directories. The 1940 New York City telephone directories are now available online…
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