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Genealogy and Technology with Dr. Blaine Bettinger

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Black and white photo of a girl in a white, knee-length dress holding a bouquet of flowers and standing in an open metal gate. The photo is double-exposed so images of two girls and two adult women are faintly superimposed.

Commercial DNA tests have had many different impacts, from confirming existing research, breaking down brick walls, and uncovering long-hidden family secrets. DNA has become an essential component of genealogical research.

Canadian History Shows that Sex Workers Usually Get the Short End of the Stick

Margaret Ross Late one evening in January 1923, police descended on Millie Jones’s bawdy house at 757 Mercer Street in Windsor, Ontario. She was forty-eight years old, and ran the house with her husband, George.[1] The couple was Black, and they employed two other Black women. The entire group was arrested, including two clients who were being entertained at the… Read more »