Word: genealogist
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...professional genealogist who traced Gates’ ancestry, Jane E. Ailes, will undertake this new project by comparing the names of the 80,000 soldiers who applied for pensions following the Revolutionary War to census data, which listed individuals as being white, a slave, or a free colored person...
...have concerns about information that other people have posted about your family online--such as birth dates of living people or Social Security numbers--contact the relevant websites and your local elected officials. As an avid genealogist says, "I would rather work a little harder at my research than have people put at risk by information posted simply to make genealogical researchers' jobs easier." And finally, experts say to order your credit report twice a year to stay on top of purchases. --By Lois Gilman