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Making History Personal
6/1/2000
By Jim Faber
The National Endowment for the Humanities has a new way to get Americans interested in the nation's history.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has a new way to get Americans interested in the nation's history — by getting them interested in their own personal history. Genealogy is the foundation of My History Is America's History, a new project created by the NEH to mark the millennium.

"Follow your family's history and you will discover America's history," says William Ferris, chairman of the NEH. "My History offers all of us a way to explore family history as we discover how our own family stories connect to the history of our nation."

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