Dick Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter recently reported on a patent application that has been filed for a “tombstone that can accommodate video equipment operated by a remote control. “You can go from grave to grave and click on anything that person wanted to say before they died.”

If you think 2020 is a mess, you should have been a resident of the British Empire in 1752.

The Commercial-News publishes wedding, anniversary, engagement, new arrival and birthday announcements online and in print on weekends.

The Commercial-News publishes wedding, anniversary, engagement, new arrival and birthday announcements online and in print on weekends.

FamilySearch is pleased to announce that the RootsTech Connect 2021 Conference, previously scheduled for Feb. 3-6, 2021, will be held Feb. 25-27, 2021, as a free, virtual event online, thus enabling participants worldwide to hear speakers and attend classes. Attendees will be able to interac…

Good Saturday, everyone! We had a great start to our 2020/2021 campaign this last week, as we kicked it off with our first radiothon with Neuhoff Media. Tom Barnes, known as Tommy B on D102, did an amazing job with all the interviews and really pulled out great information from each one. I c…

At Danville Area Community College, our job is to provide the tools for students to become consumers of information, whether it’s for a class or in support of a political position.

A free six-month subscription to Ancestry World Explorer is being offered to up to 10,000 K-12 educators across America. This subscription allows “access to billions of historical records — from 1820 census to WWII draft cards — that can enrich your students’ understanding of events and mile…

There are plenty of empty buildings in Danville with leaking roofs and missing windows, but the saddest, to me, is the stately — and undeniably historic — Adams Building, 139-141 N. Vermilion St.

Good Saturday, everyone! It is that time of year again, our 2020/2021 campaign is kicking off. This year is going to be challenging for us, but we are up for that challenge.

Keep your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel and your eyes on the ball. Above all, don’t blink, for if you do, the world could vanish. Every day, the world as we know it is being re-sculpted by the hands of technology.

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For the few minutes it takes to read this column, set aside preconceived ideas about clinical depression. If you can do this, you might end up saving the life of your son, brother, father, or husband. If you are a man reading this article, the life you save may be your own.

Good Saturday, everyone! I did a lot of time traveling alone this last weekend and I learned some new thoughts to pass along from the various radio stations and Podcasts I was listening to.

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Many libraries subscribe to the Library Edition of Ancestry.com so that their patrons may access Ancestry’s genealogy databases — but only while researching at those libraries. However, access to Ancestry’s Library Edition has been temporarily expanded to library cardholders working remotely…

WILLIAMSPORT, Ind. — Various activities were held in Warren County to celebrate Indiana’s 150th year.

Today’s article is about an exception to the saying, “Time heals all wounds.” The wound time cannot heal goes by the name of trauma.

Good Saturday, everyone! Have you ever thought about how trusting we are?

Experienced genealogists have learned to search in Linkpendium — a resource directory to “everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties … (as well as) unique indexes to online biographies.” Visit www.linkpendium.com and …

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Family history writer Tony Bandy has provided a list of every state’s free digital genealogy resources. The alphabetical list, at https://tinyurl.com/ybbjrq9w, includes Illinois’ links to the Illinois State Archives and the Illinois Digital Archives and Indiana’s links to Indiana Memory and …

Good Saturday, everyone! All of our lives have changed in different but similar ways in the last few months. What I am talking about today is the war on mask.

Not surprisingly, I don’t know a lot about my great-great-grandfather, John Clifford.

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