This is where Vietnam's rising middle class is dying to flaunt its bling: a new cemetery at the end of a golden-gated "Highway to Eternity" where relatives can order graveside offerings of Hennessy online.The Lac Hong Vien Cemetery is bringing in tomb shoppers by the busload through its Las Vegas-style marquee to choose from XL, state-of-the-art resting places for themselves and their dearly departed. Some 120,000 graves are scheduled to be built on terraced hillsides over the next four years.
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A copy of the Records of Fort de la Présentation (1740-1759) will be available in St. Lawrence University’s Owen D. Young Library.
Sixty-five million historic newspaper articles, covering the most significant events over the last 300 years, are now fully available online from today in a new archive created by the British Library.
Polish scientists have discovered what appears to be a 17th century ship loaded with looted treasure bound for Sweden dating from the Swedish-Polish war of 1655-60, at the bottom of the Vistula river, according to local media.
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell and Minister for the Arts George Souris today unveiled to the public an extraordinarily rare collection of 210-year-old natural history drawings, which will shortly go on display at the State Library of New South Wales.
Adolf Hitler spent five months in Liverpool, wandering around the city and relaxing in the Poste House pub, pint in hand. He also enjoyed a sightseeing tour of London and was so fascinated by Tower Bridge that he bribed his way into the engine room so he could see the machinery at work.
Alison Shein considers herself an amateur genealogist, spending hours online searching for information about family members she never knew. Among them: Alison's great-great-grandmother Bella Shein, who died in the Holocaust. The circumstances surrounding her death are still murky.
Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, like his father, used the surname Churchill in public life.
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Alexandra Grant traveled halfway cross the country with a special passenger riding along in her Prius. The 37-year-old artist from Los Angeles brought a tombstone with her. Along all the stops she made on the way from California to Nebraska, Grant took special care of the ivory-colored marker.
When Margaret Bonfiglioli was given an old suitcase by her aunt she stowed it away in her Oxfordshire home. She knew it probably contained family correspondence but her busy life meant its contents remained unexplored for about 15 years.
The story of humanity’s journey can be found within each of us—encoded in our DNA. In 2005, National Geographic and IBM, with support from the Waitt Family Foundation, launched the Genographic Project, which aims to provide the first true ‘snapshot’ picture of how each of us moved out of Africa and around the globe 60,000 years ago.
Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later.
Auckland Regional Public Health is checking legal obligations are being met regarding the proposed sale of an historic North Shore church amid fears the dead may be disturbed. This includes making sure all human remains at Devonport's St Paul's Presbyterian Church are left undisturbed or are ''appropriately managed''.
For a member of the aristocracy, it’s not unusual to have a coat of arms. For the son of a coal miner who grew up in a terrace house in Pontypridd, it is, however, something to sing about.
All things preservation at the National Archives and Records Administration. Posts to this site come from all of the Preservation Programs departments, including: Conservation, Electronic Records Preservation, St. Louis Preservation, and National Preservation Programs.
The British Library has announced that, after twelve successful years as Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley is to step down at the end of July 2012.
The National Archives today announced its selection of Inflection, parent company to family history web site Archives.com, to design and host a free web site for the April 2, 2012, at 9 AM (EST) launch of the 1940 U.S. Census. This is the first time that the National Archives has released a U.S. Census online.
A private residence near Sykesville that predates the Revolutionary War is the latest structure in Howard County to be recommended for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Africans who were taken into slavery in America during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade would be reuniting with their ancestors in one of the biggest ever home coming events to be held next year.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is sometimes considered the "World's First Computer Programmer".
The name of former lieutenant-governor James Bartleman is gliding toward inscription on the city's new archives building, with the period of public consultation wrapped up and no substantial objections received by the city.
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A Jewish group in Jerusalem is using 21st-century technology to map every tombstone in the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a sprawling, politically sensitive necropolis of 150,000 graves stretching back three millennia.
Jane Austen, the author of classics such as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility," may have died of arsenic poisoning, according to a crime writer who has reviewed the last letters of the British novelist.
The Somerset County Library System has received funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Library and Development Services, for the digitization of its microfilm collection, currently housed at the Princess Anne Library.
Aged Holocaust survivors made impassioned pleas to the US Congress Wednesday to allow them to sue France's state-owned SNCF railway over its role in World War II deportations to Nazi death camps.
Bullets dating back to the English Civil War have been found in a field in Berkshire by archaeologists. The bullets, dating back to 1643, were discovered during Thames Water's exploration work before pipes were replaced in Essex Street, Newbury.
The astonishing story of a Norman town lost for centuries is being brought back to life. Cutting edge LIDAR technology, deployed by armed forces to detect underground bunkers, has uncovered the streets, towns and dwellings of an early Norman settlement known as Newtown just outside Thomastown.
The firm jaw, the determined look, the hint of a confident smile - features that would later inspire the millions he led to victory over Nazi Germany. Taken when he was 18, these previously unseen images of Winston Churchill have emerged through the sale of an album belonging to a titled family which has chosen to remain anonymous.
Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 - the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War - a substantial digital collection of material from national library collections of ten libraries and other partners in eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict.
A museum dedicated to the Bronte sisters has launched an appeal for funds to buy a "lost" Charlotte Bronte manuscript and put it on public show. Young Men's Magazine Number 2 is valued at up to £300,000 by Sotheby's.
A new reality television show offering Swedish-Americans the chance to meet their long-lost Swedish relatives has some critics crying foul, but has been described by participants as the chance of a lifetime.
An "incredibly rare" symbol of wartime cowardice has been found in Wolverhampton's archives. The white feather was sent along with an anonymous letter to William Weller, who was an architect in the city, during the latter years of World War I.
Researching a family's military history used to be a real challenge, but as more and more paper archives go digital and are transferred to the internet, it's becoming possible for anyone to leaf out a family tree in surprising detail by using a few tricks and knowing where to look.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants France to commemorate all of its war dead on Armistice Day, previously reserved for remembering the soldiers who lost their lives during World War I. Sarkozy presided over the traditional ceremony on Friday, which marks 93 years since fighting in the Great War ended.
When a man decided to dig a plot in his New Orleans backyard for a swimming pool, he ended up discovering a historic cemetery that dates back to the 1700s. Vincent Marcello lives in the historic French Quarter of the city and unearthed 13 caskets while workers dug up his backyard.
Thieves have snatched a copper sword from the burial site of President Abraham Lincoln, one of the most revered leaders in US history, local media reported. The roughly three-foot sword was brandished by the statue of a Civil War artillery officer at the Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, located in Springfield, Illinois.
Every year, hikers trek the "Chemin de la Liberte" in the Pyrenees, to commemorate the 800 or so Allied airmen and Jewish refugees who risked their lives on a 60km (40 miles) route escaping Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.
A small coastal town in Massachusetts has now been revealed to have America’s largest slice of the Emerald Isle. The Irish eyes sure are smiling in the town of Scituate, where nearly half of the 18,000-person population is Irish, according to U.S. Census figures.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of World War II zig-zag trenches and "foxholes" near Truro. It is thought the trenches in Threemilestone were dug for troops getting ready for the D-Day invasion.
Officials in the Austrian province of Tyrol say they have completed the exhumation of more than 200 skeletons from a Nazi-era graveyard. The site, at a disused hospital cemetery in the town of Hall, was discovered earlier this year.
A Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, resident was shocked after discovering a tombstone in his backyard. Corey Scott, who lives in northwest Portage, said he and his friend Dustin McConnell were building a fence recently when they accidently came upon a tombstone.
More than six decades after being freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, a Utah veteran was compelled to relive the horrors and triumphs of his World War II experience this month when he received a mysterious package containing seven military medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star.
The graveyard of a church that closed its doors in 1969 has reopened following a restoration project. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at Caistor Congregational Church on Sunday to mark the occasion.
Jodie Foster was born on November 19, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Evelyn "Brandy" Ella (née Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III.
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Andres Flores has taken an imagined moment in World War II and turned it into a piece of art.
A postcard lost by a World War I soldier being treated in a village hall hospital has been returned to relatives. Carpenters Alan Payne and Jason Grant found Private Edward Wolstencroft's card in December while working in the hall at Shepreth, Cambridgeshire.
The infamous Australian bushranger Ned Kelly has been granted his final wish – to receive a proper burial – and will have his headless, bullet-ridden remains laid to rest 131 years after his execution.
Aided by 21st-century technology, researchers Wednesday afternoon searched a plot in Yantic Cemetery to determine whether 19th-century anti-slavery activist David Ruggles is buried there.
For the first time, more than 45,000 pages chronicling B.C.’s storied past are available online following the completion of a British Columbia Historical Newspapers Project.
Such deep obsession with ancestry (“progonoplexia”) is by no means a distinctly modern fad. Indeed, it goes back thousands of years to Hesiod’s Theogony and the Bible. Nor is it a peculiarly Western phenomenon, as evident from various forms of ancestor worship all over the world.
The Oka boys are a true band of brothers. All seven served in the military, yet they fought on opposing sides.
On November 15, Christie’s will offer a very rare manuscript Revolutionary War map (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000) as part of its autumn Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana sale at Christie’s New York Rockefeller Center saleroom.
Under a former Native American village in Georgia, deep inside what's now the U.S., archaeologists say they've found 16th-century jewelry and other Spanish artifacts.
An ongoing archaeological survey of a World War I site in Turkey has so far uncovered a maze of trenches, as well as about 200 artifacts that offer clues to life on a Gallipoli battlefield where troops faced off for eight months.
A previously "unknown heroine" who helped to foil a World War I spy plot by detecting secret messages has been discovered through the archives of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1915, Mabel Elliott uncovered messages about military movements being sent by an undercover German agent.
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to launch in December an online Citizen Archivist Dashboard through which volunteers can tag, transcribe and write articles about scanned NARA documents, said Pamela Wright, the agency's chief digital access strategist.
This is the man who has been dubbed the Russian grave-robber after 29 female bodies that he dressed up as dolls were found at his apartment. Russia’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested a man who kept the bodies, who was named by Russian media as Anatoly Moskvin.
The Canadian Navy was established in 1910. Library and Archives Canada holds different type of records for the Canadian Navy and its members. This research tool provides access to 16,788 references to individuals who served in the Royal Canadian Navy and the Naval Reserve between 1910 and 1918. It also includes some records for those who enlisted between 1919 and 1941. The information was extracted from the Navy Service Ledger Sheets.
These stunning aerial photographs over London make up the first-ever comprehensive bird's-eye view of our capital city - dating back to 1909. The photos, showing Buckingham Palace, Westminster, South Kensington and even Chelsea's football ground Stamford Bridge, were taken by pioneering scientist Sir Norman Lockyer.
The only surviving fourth-generation descendant of Parker Miller, Ocean City's first permanent resident, Allen lives in a two-story Wesley Avenue home where black-and-white and sepia-toned photographs of ancestors line the staircase wall.
Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia to John Brendan "Jack" Kelly, and his wife, Margaret Katherine Majer. The newborn was named after her father's sister, who had died at a young age. She was raised Catholic, and was of Irish and German descent.
Remembrance Day most often brings us the images of world wars past, of battlefields and trenches and the warriors who fought in foreign lands.
Club Privilege members can add up to 8 pictures that will be displayed in a slideshow in the home page of their Online Family Tree. These pictures can be linked to the page of an individual in the family tree.
Top secret files detailing the presence of US Marines in Londonderry during the Second World War have been declassified and are to return to the city. More than 5,000 US government documents are to be stored in a new museum in the Beech Hill House Hotel as part of a new project detailing the history of the Marines.
Shamed former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is descended from a notorious brothel keeper who ended his life in prison, a French family tree expert has revealed. The disgraced economist is the great-grandson of 19th century 'pimp' Leon Bricot, according to respected geneologist Jean-Louis Beaucarnot.
Hundreds of unclaimed portraits of World War I Diggers taken in London before they left to fight on the Western Front will be added to the National Archives collection today.
The first settlers to colonize the wilderness of northeastern Quebec had more offspring and were more successful in passing on their genes than those who followed, according to a genealogical research published Thursday in the journal Science.
Less than a week after it launched, Montreal’s new open data portal has already spawned a unique website that is offering visitors a rare glimpse into the city’s long-forgotten past.
Once laid to rest, the remains of many who died in medieval Europe were not left in peace. As much as 40 percent of graves from the mid-fifth to mid-eighth centuries appear to have been disturbed after burial.
Daily Iowan Publisher Bill Casey was supposed to have been born a December baby. But a 1950 Iowa/Minnesota football game upset pushed his mother into early labor. "I was actually at that game, but I wasn't born yet," he said and laughed. "And I never knew who won the game. [My mom] never told me that Iowa won 13 to nothing."
A real poppy from World War One has gone on display in a special Remembrance exhibition at a pub. The perfectly pressed flower was found in the notebook of a soldier who was posted near Arras in France.
Clara Nielsen was less than 2 months old when she died. Now her tombstone has finally found its way to her gravesite about 130 years after her death. The stone was found at a garage sale more than a 1,000 miles away from its owner's resting place in Dannebrog.
With the Holocaust looming, Harry Stuart's parents left Vienna and arrived in Australia in 1938. His father's first cousin was not so fortunate. He left Krakow briefly and could not get back into Poland after the Nazi occupation. And despite having money and connections, he was unable to get his family out of the country.
Some rare Persian manuscripts and original texts on Ayurveda in Sanskrit are among the prized manuscripts being preserved at the Andhra Pradesh State Archives and Research Institute at Thanjavur, India.