The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.

How many ancestors do you have? 

It is a simple question and would appear to have a simple answer: Any of us can count the number of our ancestors by performing a very obvious mathematical progression: two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so forth. In the past twenty generations, you have a mathematical chance of having more than one million ancestors. Thirty generations produces more than a billion ancestors, and forty generations results in more than one trillion.

The calculation is correct from a mathematical viewpoint but it ignores one obvious fact: there have never been that many humans on the face of the earth since the dawn of evolution! The reality is that it is impossible to have one trillion unique ancestors, regardless of the mathematics involved. 

In reality, we all have multiple lines of descent from single individuals. That is, if you could fill out a pedigree chart of all the names of all your ancestors going back forty generations, you would see the same individuals appearing time and time again in various places in the chart. For example, your mother's great-great-grandfather might be the same person as your father's great-great-great-grandfather, and so on and so forth, repeated thousands of times with different individuals at different places in your family tree. The further back you go in time, the more often certain individuals will appear in multiple locations in your ancestry.

The correct term for this is "inbreeding." That's not a very polite word in the English language, but it is a fact: if you go back enough generations, every person on the face of the earth has hundreds or even thousands of cases of inbreeding in our family trees. When hearing the word "inbreeding," some people will picture the residents of remote mountain hamlets or rural farming communities. In fact, inbreeding is much more common at the opposite end of the social spectrum: the royal families of England and Europe have far more inbreeding than the rest of us. 

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip were second cousins once removed, both being descended from Christian IX of Denmark. They were also third cousins as great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria. That results in obvious inbreeding when looking at Prince Charles' pedigree chart. 

Genealogists often prefer to use the phrase "pedigree collapse," a term first coined by the late Robert C. Gunderson, the Senior Royalty Research Specialist at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Gunderson correctly calculated that, if you kept multiplying by two the progenitors of a person born today, doubling his parents, their parents, etc., the person would have something like two hundred and eighty-one trillion forebears alive at the time of Charlemagne. Obviously, there were nowhere near that many people around when Charlemagne was King of France in 800 A.D., or at any other time. 

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Genealogists frequently underestimate the necessity of citing their sources at the beginning, but quickly realize its significance.  Ultimately, at some point in the future, you will ask, "From where did I obtain that?" If you had the foresight to document the source citation when you recorded the other information, your question can be readily answered. Source citations have numerous applications in genealogy.

Cite This For Me is a complimentary software add-on for the Chrome web browser that instantly generates webpage citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard reference styles with a single click. To generate a properly styled citation, navigate to the desired page and click the button. Subsequently, duplicate and insert the reference into your assignment, or include it in your online bibliography for secure retention until a later time. Cite This For Me is equipped with a Google Chrome extension.

That’s impressive considering it's a FREE product!

The free version of Cite This For Me can be accessed at https://www.citethisforme.com/.

The Pittsburg County (Oklahoma) Genealogical and Historical Society offers a valuable resource for advanced reading called Genealogy Source Citations Quick Reference. It can be accessed at https://bit.ly/3gkaBBR. If you lack knowledge about source citations in genealogy, begin by referring to that document. 

Elizabeth Shown Mills has authored several comprehensive volumes on the subject of source citations in genealogy research. The sources for family historians include "Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian," "Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace," and "QuickSheet: Citing Genetic Sources for History Research: Evidence Style." To access all of these references, simply visit Amazon's website at https://amzn.to/314kiy3.

The following announcement was written by the folks at MyHeritage:

We are thrilled to announce the publication of three new and important historical records collections: New York City birth, marriage, and death records. These robust collections are some of the most important vital records in the U.S. available online today, and MyHeritage is the only genealogy company that hosts the index for these records with scanned images. After a year-long process of creating this brand new index, we are glad to share the collections with you. New York City has played a pivotal role in the story of the United States as a nation and in the personal stories of countless American families. If you have any American roots at all, chances are, at least one person in your family tree was born, got married, or died in New York City, and may be found within these collections.

Search New York City Births, 1866–1909 on MyHeritage 

Search New York City Marriages, 1866–1949 on MyHeritage

Search New York City Deaths, 1866–1948 on MyHeritage

The collections contain a total of 37.4 million records and include a complete index created by MyHeritage alongside beautifully scanned color images of the original certificates and licenses.

In addition to indexing millions of primary individuals in the records, we invested a lot of time and effort in making millions of secondary individuals indexed and searchable as well. For example, in marriage records, while the bride and groom are the primary individuals listed in the record, the parents of the bride and groom are secondary individuals that you wouldn’t typically find indexed for these types of records. But on MyHeritage, we made a special effort to index these individuals as well. That said, there are additional individuals — for example, witnesses of a marriage or the person reporting a death — who are mentioned in many of the records but not indexed, so it’s always wise to look at the scanned image.

Let’s delve further into these collections: 

New York, New York City Births, 1866–1909

This collection contains 7,560,069 birth records from New York City, New York, United States, between the years 1866 and 1909. Records typically include the name of the child, date and place of birth, the names of the parents, and information about their birth.

Search New York, New York City Births, 1866–1909

New York, New York City Marriages, 1866–1949

This collection contains 20,912,650 marriage records from New York City, New York, United States, between the years 1866 and 1949. Records typically include the names of the groom and the bride, their birth place, their ages, the date and place of marriage and the names of their parents.

There are two different types of marriage records within this collection: marriage certificates issued by the New York City Health Department and marriage licenses issued by the New York City Clerk.

The NYC department of health issued marriage certifications through 1937, and beginning in 1908, in compliance with New York State law, couples planning to marry obtained a license through the city clerk. The city clerk license typically included an affidavit filled out by the couple, the license issued by the clerk, and the certificate completed by the person performing the ceremony.

We consolidated the multiple marriage records for the same individuals and we put them together as a set, so if there are both a marriage certificate and a license (which would be found for the years 1908–1937) then you will see both as part of the same record. If there is only one or the other, you will see just the one. 

The information recorded in these two different types of records is mostly the same. However, the city clerk marriage licenses include additional information about the couples’ parents and occupations, which can be extremely helpful. 

Search New York, New York City Marriages, 1866–1949

New York, New York City Deaths, 1866–1948

This collection contains 8,893,688 death records from New York City, New York, United States, between the years 1866 and 1948. Records typically include the name of the deceased, date and place of birth, age at the time of death, date and place of death, the names of the parents and the name of the spouse.

Search New York, New York City Deaths, 1866–1948

Examples

In a recent webinar about New York City historical record collections, hosted on Legacy Family Webinars, our Director of Content, Mike Mansfield delved into the new New York City’s birth, marriage, and death records, and featured some examples.

Each of the examples highlights the wealth of information contained within New York City’s historical records. From births to marriages and deaths, these documents serve as invaluable resources for understanding the lives of past generations and tracing familial lineages.

You can read a lot more in this announcement in the MyHeritage Blog at: https://bit.ly/3UKmmZ9.

The following announcement was written by the folks at Findmypast:

This week, there are 30,587 brand new records to discover.

We've bolstered our global record collection this week with over 30 thousand records that span three continents. We've added 2,951 birth, marriage and death (BMD) records from British-occupied India, in addition to 25,988 New Zealand BMDs. 

If you've got Irish ancestors, you'll also be pleased to hear that we've added a brand new set of Limerick electoral registers, spanning 1760 to 1776.

New British India records

We've added 2,051 birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records from British India, all from the year 1872.

British India Office Births

This Findmypast Friday, we added new records to this existing set. 

These transcriptions cover the year 1872.

British India Office Marriages 

We also added marriage records to our British India collection.

British India Office Death and Burials 

There are also new deaths and burials for you to explore. 

If you’ve got ancestors from India, you may just find a familiar name or two within this updated set.

Updated BMDs from New Zealand

We've also updated our New Zealand birth, marriage and death indexes this week, with almost 26,000 additions from 1924, 1944 and 1974.

Ireland, Limerick City & County Electoral Registers 1760-1776

There's also a brand new Irish record set to explore. 

These 2,548 new electoral register transcriptions cover the years 1760 to 1766.

Over 300,000 new pages...

This week we added 304,139 newspaper pages from across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland to our archive. 

New titles:

Updated titles:

Last week, we added over 20,000 new records - explore the full release for yourself today.

I must admit that I adore going to Barnes & Noble or any other huge bookstore and meandering around for an hour or more. I peruse the shelves for things that interest me. I frequently discover other books that I had no interest in until I spotted the book on the shelf. Unfortunately, I believe such "browsing trips" will become a thing of the past before many more years pass.

One prevalent forecast is that most restaurants and grocery shops will always be substantial "brick and mortar" retail establishments. However, many other retail stores will either downsize or disappear totally. I'm sad that bookstores are dwindling to small places in strip malls, but I believe the predictions are right.

Operating a Barnes & Noble or any other huge bookshop must be very expensive. I don't have any numbers, but it obviously costs a lot of money to rent retail space, as well as provide heat, air conditioning, lights, shelving, retail point-of-sale computers (we used to call those cash registers years ago), employee wages, parking, and all of the other expenses associated with any retail operation. That only covers the store and does not include the cost of a single book.

Next, factor in the cost of books to be kept in inventory. Whether Barnes and Noble produces the books themselves (which is rare) or buys them from publishers, the cost of printing and distributing them can be enormous. 

A typical 200-page, 5.5 x 8.5-inch, black-and-white paperback book costs the publisher approximately $4 to produce, provided the printer makes at least a few hundred copies. For successful novels published in large quantities, the cost can be reduced to as little as $3 per volume. Hardcover books are more expensive, and adding a dust cover raises the price even higher. When you add in the author's payment (typically 50 cents to a dollar per book), the cost of marketing the book, the cost of packaging the books and shipping them to a retailer, and any other expenses incurred by the publisher and printer, you can see why books purchased at a local bookstore are so expensive. When you add the printer/publisher charges to the local store's overhead, it's no surprise that most books in retail stores cost between $10 and $30.

Of fact, millions of people have already recognized the numerous advantages of e-publishing. Consumers who buy a Kindle, iPad, or Android tablet discover that they can buy and read books much more readily than before. Prices can be lower at times, but not always. Most publishers aim to sell their books at "whatever the market will bear," therefore e-books remain significantly more expensive than the minimum required to cover electronic "printing" and distribution costs. One reason Amazon, Apple, and many others have invested heavily in e-books is the high profit margins! Many book publishers discover that selling e-books generates higher earnings than selling printed books.

These high prices will not persist indefinitely. High volume firms with little overhead expenses inevitably result in cheaper prices.

As much as I enjoy e-publishing and the capacity to store hundreds of books on a little tablet computer, I must say that I still miss paper books. Based on feedback from newsletter subscribers, I assume many others feel the same way. Many of us would buy printed books if they were reasonably priced and available instantly. Waiting for the mailman or the UPS driver is not a popular activity in a society that values rapid satisfaction.

A new business model promises to transform the publishing, distribution, and retail processes of books. In short, customers can now "have their cake and eat it too." That is, we may purchase printed books on almost any topic of interest within minutes of visiting a store, even if the store is not the size of an airplane hanger.

Instead of being limited to Nooks, Kindles, and other e-readers, new on-demand printing solutions like the Espresso Book Machine can print a book in minutes.

Instead of entering a store the size of an airplane hanger, imagine a future bookstore roughly the size of today's Starbucks. The store owners will not have to spend hundreds of dollars on shelving (which will eventually be passed on to customers in the form of higher prices); instead, the new store will have a few shelves that may display a few of today's most popular books, as well as a coffee shop and a few machines in the back.

The machines in the back of the store will be Espresso Book Machines or similar. The Espresso Book Machine is not new. I originally wrote about these machines over 18 years ago, in the October 2006 issue of my newsletter. I went on to write further articles over the years. You may learn more about Espresso Book Machines on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_Book_Machine. 

Using the "print a book while the customer waits" machinery enables for a large inventory of available books, even in a tiny business. Books may be digitally stored on big hard drives on a server in the back of the store. However, I believe it is more practical to store a few million volumes on servers in a company's home office and then connect every print-on-demand printer to the Internet. 

If a consumer requests a little-known "Persifor Frazer in Glasslough, Ireland, and his son, John Frazer of Philadelphia, 1735-1765," the bookshop machine operator can download the book in a minute or two and print it in another five minutes. The consumer then pays for the book and walks out with a printed copy under his arm.

NOTE: You can download that book now at http://www.archive.org/details/persiforfrazersd01fraz. However, you will need to either print it or copy it to your e-reader. Printing it on your home printer will most likely cost more in paper and ink than what the store charges for printing. Then you must determine whether and how to collate the book and bind the pages together. Even a 3-ring binder will cost about the same as a printed and bound paperback book purchased from a future retailer.

Coffee cafes have already been popular in bookstores. I do not expect it to alter. Indeed, under the new way of "print a book while the customer waits," providing a cup of coffee to a waiting customer may be an appealing service that attracts additional customers to the store. 

Where will the future bookstore get its books? Let's divide the answer into two categories: books that are no longer copyrighted and novels that are copyright protected.

Books that are no longer in copyright

Millions of non-copyrighted books are now available electronically. Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/texts) claims to have 5 million books and objects from more than 1,500 selected collections. Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/) contains about 40 million records from a range of huge catalogs and individual donations, with more on the way. (The Open Library hosts the catalog, but many of the books are hosted elsewhere. Google Books (http://books.google.com) contains several million more books. Obviously, there is a lot of overlap, but the overall quantity of non-copyright books must be far greater than 40 million

Future bookstores could presumably just download books from one of the massive online sources. I believe the bookstore's main office will need to make agreements with each online repository (Archive.org, Open Library, and others) and pay a licensing price for each book downloaded, printed, and sold. To pick a random quantity, maybe the licensing cost for each printed and sold book is fifty cents. That may not seem like a lot of money, but 50 cents multiplied by a few million books can add up to a lot of money for each online book provider. The revenue gained may then be used to keep the servers running and to purchase and print more books.

Books that still have copyright protection

Barnes & Noble, as well as all other retailers, already understand how to deal with publishers. They may need to make addendums to current agreements, but all major book publishers will welcome an extra channel for selling books, particularly one that does not incur costs for printing, storage, packaging, or shipping printed books.

I also view this as beneficial to smaller publishers, including genealogical publishers. Genealogical Publishing Company (GPC), for example, publishes both new and reprinted publications that are no longer copyrighted. GPC and other companies establish deals with authors, spend a lot of money printing the books, and then have to store them for an extended period of time while they are sold to genealogists. A smaller publisher, like GPC, frequently needs to compete for shelf space in bookstores. When was the last time you saw a genealogy book on the shelves of a large bookshop in a nearby shopping center? Barnes & Noble and other huge retailers can only maintain in-demand books on their shelves. Specialty literature, particularly genealogical books, are frequently only accessible through special order. Having any genealogical book available in minutes at any bookstore must be an excellent marketing opportunity for Genealogical Publishing Company, and other genealogy publishers.

Other issues:

Author payments

Selling books on demand, whether as printed books in stores or as e-books on the Internet, should not influence the writers' remuneration. A few famous authors earn large royalties, but the majority receive between 50 cents and $1 for each printed book sold. That figure should not alter for e-books or books printed using Espresso Book Machines or similar technology. The future bookstore will undoubtedly have to compensate the publisher for each book printed. The publisher, in turn, must reimburse each author in accordance with existing contracts. In fact, if a new distribution channel results in a significant rise in book sales, the authors will undoubtedly earn more money than ever before. 

Impact on Libraries

I see two benefits for libraries:

1. A library is not required to order, pay for, or shelve books in advance of a patron request. Instead of paying money up front in the hopes that someone will eventually check the book out, the library may wait until a patron requests a certain book and then print it using a Espresso Book Machine or similar printer within the library. The client could then take the newly printed book home in the usual way. When the book is returned, the library will most likely shelve it as usual, waiting for another user to request it.

2. Any library may effectively become a bookstore. Anyone might request a book, either as a library loan or for purchase. Each library would require a Espresso Book Machine or a similar printer. Upon request, the client could either borrow a book as a regular library loan or purchase it entirely. Book sales could help a library cover operating costs.

Yes, if the world transitions to small bookstores with Starbucks-sized storefronts, I will miss the chance to explore the books. However, I will replace that "loss" with the understanding that I can get as many printed books as I want or can afford, and at affordable costs. This will include both copyright-protected and unprotected literature. Books that are still copyrighted will certainly cost more since writers and publishers must be compensated. Nonetheless, the total cost of a "print on demand" book should be much lower than what we currently spend for a best seller at today's Barnes & Noble locations.

I'm looking forward to this new manner of purchasing printed books. I'll have a decaf coffee while I wait for my books to be printed, please. Then, maybe I'll stay at home and download the books to my iPad.

In October 1983, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) responded to an incident at a canal west of Atlantic Boulevard near the intersection of US 441 and Acme Dairy Road in Palm Beach County, Florida. In the canal, investigators located the body of a deceased white female. The woman's body was discovered nude with a belt tied around her neck, and her throat had been cut. The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner determined that the woman was a victim of sexual battery and that she had been murdered.

Four days later on Oct. 25, 1983, the woman was identified as thirty-year-old Gayla Ann McNeil of Cocoa Beach, Florida. Investigators launched an investigation to identify the person responsible for McNeil’s death. Investigators learned that McNeil was walking south from coastal Brevard County, Florida to an unknown location in South Florida. On October 19, 1983, McNeil was stopped by police north of Palm Beach in Stuart, Florida. The next day, an officer with the Lake Worth Police Department questioned McNeil and reported that she was attempting to flag down cars on US Highway 1 in Lake Worth. Gayla reported that she was from Cocoa and was headed to Fort Lauderdale.

Gayla was last seen wearing blue jeans, a beige flannel shirt, and a brown sweatband around her head. She was carrying a clear plastic bag with clothing and a brown cutting board. Described as having a slender build, McNeil stood approximately 5'9" tall and weighed only around 100 pounds. She had medium length, dark brown hair.

Although forensic DNA technology did not exist at the time of McNeil’s murder, DNA evidence was collected at the scene of the crime and preserved for future testing. Throughout the course of the investigation, DNA technology was developed. In 2000, DNA from the crime scene was analyzed and an STR profile was developed and entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a consortium of local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons. There were no matches detected in the CODIS search. With all leads exhausted, a suspect was not identified, and the case remained cold.

You can read more about this story in an article in the forensicmag.com web site at: http://bit.ly/3WpZIXc.

Holocaust Centre North in Huddersfield, west Yorkshire, has launched a new digital archive of 70 collections of papers and personal testimonies from Holocaust survivors and refugees.

The archive is the first phase of an ambitious three-year project, Homeward Bound, by the museum to catalogue its extensive Holocaust collection and make it accessible online.

The new archive can be accessed remotely via the National Archives website, opening up the centre’s collections to anyone with an interest in Holocaust history, such as academics, artists, schools, researchers and survivors’ families.

In a statement, the institution said: “Following months of painstaking work for the centre’s archivist, this groundbreaking and transformative service enables global public online access to its collections and supports the centre’s strategy to becoming a world-class destination for Holocaust education and research.”

The statement added: “Not only is this level of access and depth of information invaluable for worldwide Holocaust education, this cataloguing has also greatly benefitted the centre’s own staff. 

Through complete immersion in its records, collections and learning staff have gained a far greater understanding and increased knowledge of its collection, its stories and the survivors themselves.”

The cataloguing process helped to uncover previously unknown connections and stories in the collections.

You can read more in an article by Geraldine Kendall Adams published in the museumsassociation.org web site at: http://bit.ly/3JJ75Bl.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told employees Wednesday that it is blocking access to ChatGPT on agency-issued laptops to "protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT," 404 Media reported Wednesday. From the report:

"NARA will block access to commercial ChatGPT on NARANet [an internal network] and on NARA issued laptops, tablets, desktop computers, and mobile phones beginning May 6, 2024," an email sent to all employees, and seen by 404 Media, reads. "NARA is taking this action to protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT."

The move is particularly notable considering that this directive is coming from, well, the National Archives, whose job is to keep an accurate historical record. The email explaining the ban says the agency is particularly concerned with internal government data being incorporated into ChatGPT and leaking through its services. "ChatGPT, in particular, actively incorporates information that is input by its users in other responses, with no limitations. Like other federal agencies, NARA has determined that ChatGPT's unrestricted approach to reusing input data poses an unacceptable risk to NARA data security," the email reads. The email goes on to explain that "If sensitive, non-public NARA data is entered into ChatGPT, our data will become part of the living data set without the ability to have it removed or purged."

The following announcement was written by Jay Rosenzweig and Chris Schauble:

"My Birth Mother’s Dying Wish was to Meet Me"

May 1, 2024 -- Award-winning private investigator Jay Rosenzweig and award-winning Los Angeles Morning News Anchor Chris Schauble are teaming up to bring audiences a thrilling new talk show that focuses on reuniting family members who have been separated for years or never even knew about each other!

The show, titled "Finding Family DNA" brings Jay (Founder/CEO of Birthparentfinder.com) and Chris together once again after Jay found Chris' birth family 10 years ago. The result of that award-winning news story helped hundreds of people find their long-lost family members.

This show explores stories of people searching for their family, mainly through DNA testing. Viewers will learn about the fascinating journey of connecting with long-lost relatives using modern technology. They will witness heartwarming reunions and the power of genetic discovery. This is an inspiring and informative series on finding family through DNA. New episodes drop every Wednesday morning, beginning May 1st.

In each episode, Chris and Jay bring in guests to talk about their experience in finding their missing relatives and the results of their reunions.  Viewers will also hear from an expert Genealogist on how DNA is used in solving these cases.  Each episode will have a unique and heartwarming story that will leave viewers with a renewed appreciation for the power of finding family.

The show will premiere on YouTube - https://youtube.com/@FindingFamilyDNA beginning May 1st, with new episodes dropping every Wednesday.  For extra content, viewers can also watch/listen to the show through a paid subscription with Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/FindingFamilyDNA.

Don't Miss Out on These Engaging Episodes.

Subscribe to the Finding Family DNA podcast to enjoy this inspiring and informative series on finding family through DNA. New episodes drop every Wednesday morning beginning May 1st.

You can learn more at https://www.birthparentfinder.com/ and also on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@FindingFamilyDNA.

Thousands of migrants board trucks in Mexico each year in the hope of reaching the U.S. border and building a new life. Some of those journeys end in tragedy. A cross-border team of investigative journalists in Latin America, Europe and the United States collaborated for seven months on a database that gives a glimpse into dangerous and deadly human smuggling.

Data journalists reviewed public records, news coverage and reports by an advocacy group to create the database documenting nearly 19,000 migrants’ journeys through Mexico. This attempt by reporters to map events across six years and the routes taken by the trucks is unprecedented. Some migrants’ journeys start in the Mexican state of Chiapas on the country’s southern border with Guatemala, and others make it as far as the state of Tamaulipas on the border with Texas. ICIJ helped fact-check the data.

The events listed in the database cover the years 2018 to 2023 and reveal only a fraction of cases, since most of the smuggling remains undetected. The team documented 172 cargo vehicles, most of which were pulling trailers — with no ventilation system — containing anywhere from a few to hundreds of migrants, traveling for days on end in unsafe and overcrowded conditions and sometimes scorching temperatures. The migrants who were found by authorities through routine inspections or because the cargo vehicle was abandoned by the side of the road by the smugglers reported agonizing and inhumane conditions. ICIJ and its media partners documented at least 111 deaths, with hundreds more injured.

This article is part of “Cargo trucks: a trap for migrants,” a reporting collaboration led by Noticias Telemundo and the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP), with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Bellingcat. Pie de Página and its partners Chiapas Paralelo and En un 2×3 Tamaulipas reported in Mexico, Plaza Pública in Guatemala and Contracorriente in Honduras.

You can read the full story in an article by Jesús Escudero, Brenda Medina, Delphine Reuter, Ronny Rojas, Pablo Medina Uribe and Marión Briancesco published in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist's web ste at: http://bit.ly/4bjb3wd,