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The napkin tells of kinship


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Marc Vermeeren and Jean-Paul Mulders from Belgium had previously found 38 relatives of Adolf Hitler, now they were looking for number 39. The "suspect" was Alexander Adolf Stuart-Houston who lives in the USA, with a new surname. After a long period of searching Stuart-Houston's home, they finally found him.

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Library without books


The image is taken from Wikipedia
and shows Cushing Academy in 1908

About 90 minutes' drive west of Boston is Cushing Academy. This 144-year-old school used to have a library with a collection of around 20,000 books, but that's no longer the case. This year, the school administration decided to throw out all the books in favor of flat screens displaying information from the Internet, seating areas specially designed for laptops and 18 electronic reading tablets made by Amazon and Sony.

Do you have to hand in the family tree?

In Norway, we have a law on compulsory delivery. "Act on the obligation to disclose publicly available documents" helps to safeguard our collective memory. The purpose of the law is to ensure the preservation of information that is publicly available, so that it is not lost to future generations.

ISBN number for family history?

ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number, and all rural and genealogical books must have such a number. The number system makes it possible to identify any book and is very useful for cataloging in both library and bookstore contexts.

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