#genealogy
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Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe Distant Cousins
Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe share a distant bloodline, revealing a 300-year family connection.
Consequence · 1m
Nearly 4m enslaved people's records now searchable online
A digitised archive of 300,000 pages from 20 former British colonies lets descendants trace family histories through registers originally created to count them as property.
the Guardian · 2m