Swipe card: USA
250 years of Danish-Norwegian colonial history from the US Virgin Islands moves to the National Archives
The colonial history of the US Virgin Islands, spanning 250 years of Danish-Norwegian colonial rule, is now moving to the Danish National Archives. On November 1, the...
To find the names of 10 million slaves from 1500 to 1865
An ambitious project will restore the history of 10 million slaves and find their descendants.An exciting new effort is underway to restore history...
The Emigrants, new film by Erik Poppe
Many people have relatives who were part of the three major waves of emigration from Norway to the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. Now you can...
Over 200 newspapers from Utah digitized
Recently, 133 years of publications from the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper were published online. With that, the Utah newspaper service Utah Digial Newspaper...
1950 US census online on April 1
No, it's not an April Fool's joke. With an odd 72-year blocking period on census returns, April 1 sees the publication of the 1950 census...
Utilizing OCR, AI/ML, and user involvement
On April 1, 2022, the 1950 census for the United States will be released, with the help of recent IT developments. Employees from the National Archives have been working on the...
Now many are waiting for this census
No, we're not talking about the completion of the 1920 census or the next Norwegian census. This is a much more recent census that may also contain names...
The widow of American Civil War veteran has died
Genealogies and family connections sometimes stretch further than you can imagine. This is made clear in a recent news story from the US,...
The US releases all family trees older than 95 years
In the new year, the US Copyright Act will not protect genealogy books and other publications published before 1926. The USA has a slightly different copyright law...
Census worker shot in the US
In the United States, a major census is currently being conducted. The census has been widely publicized, as President Donald Trump wanted to include a question...
