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Word: cyr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to say that we are working hard to keep the school clean, but we need something back to support our families," custodial crew chief Freud Saint-Cyr told the crowd...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mayor Advocates Wage Increase | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...millions worldwide. Today a quarter of the 300,000 amateur genealogists who visit the Denver Public Library each year are Hispanic. Ukrainian Americans register inquiries at www.carpatho-rusyn.org and Cajuns can search for their ancestors on a CD-ROM of half a million names, compiled by Acadian genealogist Yvon Cyr. In San Francisco, educator Albert Cheng, who has traced 2,800 years of his family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths back to their ancestral villages each summer after they have researched family and archival records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...documented, with notes on its source. That's why computers, which can organize massive amounts of data, are ideal. Remember that for each generation back, the number of parents doubles; by the time you hit 20 generations, it's up to more than a million. In two decades, genealogolist Cyr has collected data on 88,000 relatives and in-laws--going back to 17th century France--and stored the information on his desktop, using Family Tree Maker software (see box, next page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...think any custodian likes the snow,said Freud Saint-Cyr, a Harvard facilities crewchief. "You clean it because you have...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Snow Unlikely to Close Down College | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

DIED. LILI ST. CYR, 80, B-movie actress and stripper of the '40s and '50s, famous for her onstage bubble baths; in Los Angeles. Long before the advent of Victoria's Secret, St. Cyr ran a mail-order lingerie company featuring, among other items, "scanti-panties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 15, 1999 | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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