LOS ANGELES (AP) — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday.
The website, known as one of the largest global online resources of family history, is collaborating with the Irei Project, which has been working to memorialize more than 125,000 detainees. It’s an ideal partnership as the project’s researchers were already utilizing Ancestry. Out of over 60 billion records Ancestry holds, nearly 350,000 have been found to be pertinent to camp detainees and their families.
People will be able to look at more than just names and tell “a bigger story of a person,” said Duncan Ryūken Williams, the Irei Project director.
“Being able to research and contextualize a person who has a longer view of family history and community history, and ultimately, American history, that’s what it’s about — this collaboration,” Williams told told The Associated Press exclusively.
DEI bans: Conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum
Return to sender! Bizarre items that arrived in the post and left people terrified
I get shamed by other mothers for being naturally pretty with a good figure
Rustle these up with Rosemary: Carrot cake with orange buttercream and walnuts
Zoe Ball announces death of her 'dear mama' Julia following short battle with pancreatic cancer
Emma Hayes blasts Jonas Eidevall's 'male aggression' after heated post
My toddler saved my life after I had an epileptic seizure and fell in the bath
ESTHER RANTZEN: I asked Mail readers to help me plan my funeral. Your choices
1 person was arrested after 3 people were injured in a 'major incident' at a Welsh school
This Might Not Be It review: Behind the Perspex partition
With lawsuits in rearview mirror, Disney World government gets back to being boring
ALISON BOSHOFF: Yo ho ho! Johnny Depp to launch his own brand of Caribbean dark rum