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December 1, 2008 by Heather Ford

iHeritage now online

immigration_document_1949Very excited to have gotten iHeritage up today. Really looking forward to the seminars and photo walks that we’ll be doing in the new year. If anyone is interested in helping out, please email me or join the Jozi mailing list.

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Heather Ford

I've worked as a researcher, blogger, activist and webqueen around issues of internet governance, online collaboration and open access. I'm currently a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Clarendon Scholar and member of Kellogg College at Oxford University in the UK where I study how Wikipedians around the world write history as it happens.

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