Monday Recap for February 24, 2014
Get your genealogy and family history fix with this week’s roundup!
The Genealogy Sphere
- Shakespeare’s 14th great-niece baptized at church where he is buried (DailyMail UK) – The 14th great-niece of the famous writer was baptized at the church where the playwright is buried
- Are You Related to A.J. Jacobs? (WNYC) – Listen to A.J. Jacobs on The Brian Lehrer Show discussing his global family reunion event
- The transported child (The Legal Genealogist) – Judy Russell discusses the history behind the practice of sending children in bondage to America in the 1700s
- At 110, oldest known Holocaust survivor dies (CNN) – Sad news, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor died at the age of 110
On Geni
- Geni and BillionGraves: Digitally Preserving the World’s Cemeteries Together – We’ve teamed up with BillionGraves to digitally preserve the world’s cemeteries
- Winter Olympics Sochi 2014 – Bring your love of the winter Olympic games and genealogy together in the Winter Olympics project on Geni
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