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History hacks is a site that is dedicated to finding, exploring, reviewing (playing with and ranting about) the uses of technology for history, American Studies, Museums, literature, and digital humanities learning and research.

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Open Source Roots

One of the frustrating things about finding out information about one’s ancestors online in a post-capitalist, information as commodity based system, is that to do so, you have to pay. Sites like Ancestry.com own censuses and social security death indexes, offering your entire family tree for the price of a few mouse clicks and good [...]