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We love stories about how learning about our ancestors helps us find strength in who we are:

'It can be life-changing': How exploring ancestry helps mental health Learning about ancestry can boost mental health and act as a powerful tool in helping heal generational trauma.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/12/world/holocaust-survivor-baby-intl/index.html

Holocaust survivor left on a bench as a baby finds new family at 80 | CNN When Alice Grusová was a baby, her parents left her on a train station bench, with no idea of what would become of her.

https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/02/myheritage-adds-huge-collection-of-historical-u-s-city-directories/

AN ALTERNATIVE TO FILL IN THE GAPS BETWEEN CENSUS YEARS: About a year ago, MyHeritage released a large data set of the US city directories, comprising 545 million aggregated records consolidated from 1.3 billion records. Thanks to their level of detail, city directories can provide a viable alternative to U.S. census records during non-census years, as federal censuses are taken once every ten years, and in many cases city directories were published annually.

They can also fill in the gaps in situations where census records were lost or destroyed. In 1921, a fire at the U.S. Department of Commerce destroyed most of the records from the 1890 census. Despite the loss of the records in the fire, much of the data can be reconstructed using the 1890 city directories on MyHeritage, which consist of directory books from 344 cities across the country, including 88 of the 100 most populated cities during that year.

MyHeritage Adds Huge Collection of Historical U.S. City Directories - MyHeritage Blog We are pleased to announce the publication of a huge collection of historical U.S. city directories — an effort that has been two years in the making. The