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Katherine Heigl explores family tree in Germany - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Katherine Heigl explores family tree in Germany San Francisco Chronicle (blog) ... to visit the childhood home of her German grandfather last week. The actress stopped in the small town of Esslingen, near Stuttgart, while in Germany promoting her latest movie “One for the Money.” Heigl explored her ancestry with her mom Nancy, ... and more »

Idel-Ural—Fragments of Heimat: In Search of Volga Germans - The Kazan Herald

The Kazan Herald

Idel-Ural—Fragments of Heimat: In Search of Volga Germans The Kazan Herald Yerina, of German ancestry herself, is resolute that the suffering of the Volga Germans should not be exploited for political capital—a crime she charges the commemoration of the Ukrainian famines of the 1930s of having committed.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Many resist census race labels - Fox News

AP EXCLUSIVE: Many resist census race labels Fox News They are also Italians, Germans, Haitians and Jamaicans who consider ancestry a core part of who they are. Roughly half a million black Americans — between 1 and 2 percent of their total population — wrote in answers to signify their preferred term ... and more »

Manage the Chinese relationship at a personal level - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Manage the Chinese relationship at a personal level Globe and Mail On his second official trip to China, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will appreciate that managing the China relationship is as important for our time as managing German ambition was for the first half of the 20th century. At some point in the 2020s, ... and more »

Prisoner Citizens: The Story of Japanese Internment Camps - Top Secret Writers

Prisoner Citizens: The Story of Japanese Internment Camps Top Secret Writers Fears about “alien enemies” and individuals with “enemy ancestry” once again emerged during World War I. By 1917, more than 250000 German-Americans and Germans living in the US who had declared citizenship in other countries were required register at ...