Archived Blog Posts:  August 2016


Integrating Your Ancestors into Desktop, Mobile and Cloud Technologies
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016

(Dover, DE) On Saturday, September 3, at 10:30 a.m. Shamele Jordon will present a program at the Delaware Public Archives focusing on new technologies that have proven to be most useful for genealogy research. Through her own quest for her family’s history, the presenter will discuss how she used new genealogical methods such as desktop […]


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In Pursuit of “Pancho” Villa: The Delaware National Guard’s 1916 Mexican Border Service
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

In 1916, Mexican Revolutionary General Francisco “Pancho” Villa, led a raid against the U.S.-Mexican border town of Columbus, New Mexico. The U.S. government sent U.S. Army General John J. Pershing to capture Villa in an unsuccessful nine-month incursion into Mexican sovereign territory that ended when the United States entered World War I. Among Pershing’s troops […]


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