Philadelphia Family Finder

When I talk with a genealogist, I seem to sit up with a corpse, Ralph Waldo Emerson spat in 1855. Our guest contributor, Gene O'Lowgee, takes a look at the joys and pitfalls of family history research.

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Delve into the historical background of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and discuss the event’s continuing impact on American public memory with West Cheste...r University's Dr. Robert Kodosky, Ph.D. The lecture will be followed by the Caring for Your Paper Collections: Preservation Best Practices workshop describing methods for preserving and sharing the letters, photographs, and other materials from the period.

"Like every American, Sumiko Kobayashi was shocked on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, as news streamed in of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This national tragedy became personal two months later. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, giving the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending into southern Arizona. For the next four years, more than 120,000... persons of Japanese ancestry77,000 of them U.S. citizenswere incarcerated without criminal charges or trial." Learn more in the latest blog series from HSP's Vincent Fraley. https://goo.gl/jPfp7k

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