Kim Milai, a retired school teacher, was searching on ancestry.com for information about her great grandfather, Amohamed Milai, when her browser turned up something she had not expected: a page from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America site displaying a scan of the Harrisburg Telegraph newspaper from March 13, 1919. On that page was a story with the headline, “Prof. Amohamed Milai to Speak at Second Baptist.” The article was indeed about her great grandfather, who was an enigmatic figure within her family, but…”Professor!?,” Milai said. “He was not a professor. He exaggerated.” Whether it was the truth or an exaggeration, it was, after all, a rare bit of documentation about him, so Milai printed it out and got to add another colorful piece to the mosaic of her family history. But she might never have found that piece if it wasn’t for ancestry.com’s access to Chronicling America’s collections via an API.


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