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• A new website called Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names will
  launch in September. The site will contain free, searchable information about enslaved
  Virginians named in manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society. Read
  more about the project here. 

• FindMyPast.co.uk has completed
  its two-year project to make the English and Welsh birth, marriage and death records on
  its site easier to use. This final installment of the project makes more than 85 million
  death records searchable at once, with as little as a surname. The site’s death records
  include England & Wales deaths, 1837-2006; British nationals who died overseas,
  1818-2005; British nationals armed forces deaths, 1796-2005; and British nationals
  who died at sea, 1854-1890.

• The
  Holisso Center, a research facility for Chickasaw Nation history, will
  open May 28 at the Chickasaw
  Nation Cultural Center in Sulphur, Okla. The Holisso Center also has technology
  to repair and preserve damaged historical materials.
  

• The latest celebrities found to be relatives: Lady
  Gaga and Madonna, who share roots in Quebec (if you have French-Canadian roots,
  you’re probably also related to both women),  and Johnny
  Depp and Queen Elizabeth. Also, genealogists from Irish historical research company
  Eneclann have identified President
  Obama’s closest living Irish relatives in Ballygurteen, Co. Tipperary.