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How a WHG librarian Found His Family Through DNA

Studio group portrait taken at the time of the baptism of Mercedes Gómez in Vigil (Las Animas County), Colorado. Members of the Hispanic American Gómez family are identified: top left to right: Carolina Gómez, Lucía Gómez, Domecinda Gómez. Front, left-right: Juanita M. Girardot Gómez, Mercedes Gómez (baby). and Leandro Gómez.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 7

Census enumerator visiting a Virginia household during the 1950 U.S. Census. Image courtesy of the National Archives.

1950 U.S. Census research tips and strategies

Exterior of the future Women's Bank, circa 1978. The Women's Bank Records, WH2365, Box 1

'A Bank For All People': Remembering The Women's Bank

Ukranian striped flag with blue on top and yellow below

Ukrainians in Colorado

May Arno Schwatt, n.d., courtesy of Charles E. Spivak

May Arno, “Musician, Author, Teacher, Actress”

Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."

Special Collections and Digital Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites From 2021

The Spanish Colonial mission at Santa Cruz, New Mexico is adobe and has two pitched-roof steeples with crosses on top. A woman with a dark shawl wrapped over her head and shoulders walks in the foreground down a path at the side of the mission.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 6

The more the merrier on a slide

The George Washington Carver Day Nursery, Denver’s First Racially Integrated Day Care

Interior view of the wedding of Lupe Morales and Gene Vigil at St. Cajetan's Catholic Church, 1190 Ninth (9th) Street, in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The couple kneel in front of the altar, shows religious paintings and statues. People are in the pews, and rose petals are sprinkled along the aisle.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 5

"'Fox' - Frontier or Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyo." (fox relief sculpture), 1930. PhotoBox: 1, Page: 21, Julius Peter Ambrusch Papers (WH2473)

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

Studio portrait of Pablo C. de Baca, his wife Emilia Rudolph C. de Baca, their unidentified son and an unidentified infant. Pablo wears a dark suit and tie, has his hair parted in the middle and has a waxed mustache. His wife Emilia wears a blouse with puffed sleeves. The young boy wears a dark vest and a shirt with a lace Bertha collar and an over sized bow tie. The baby wears a dark dress and has its hair parted in the middle.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 4