{"id":17153,"date":"2012-02-21T22:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=17153"},"modified":"2012-02-21T22:11:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:11:43","slug":"ancestry-com-offers-free-access-to-its-japanese-internment-camp-record-collections-until-midnight-et-feb-23-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=17153","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com Offers FREE Access to its Japanese Internment Camp Record Collections Until Midnight ET Feb. 23, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article posted at rafu.com:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/internment?o_xid=50344&amp;o_lid=50344&amp;o_sch=Online+Brand%2fPR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Japanese-Collection-at-Ance.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Japanese Internment Collection at Ancestry.com\" width=\"350\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Japanese-Collection-at-Ance.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Japanese-Collection-at-Ance-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In remembrance of the 70th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s Executive Order 9066, which placed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps, Ancestry.com, the world\u2019s largest online family history resource, is offering free access until Feb. 23 to its extensive internment camp record collections.<\/p>\n<p>The more than 180,000 records, spanning 1942-45, allow all Americans a chance to better understand the nation\u2019s wartime mindset and the effect it had on Japanese Americans. For those with Japanese heritage, these databases offer a glimpse into their families\u2019 removal from their homes and businesses and insights into how they were forever affected by their internment. To begin searching, users can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/internment?o_xid=50344&#038;o_lid=50344&#038;o_sch=Online+Brand%2fPR\">www.ancestry.com\/japanese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government viewed the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as justification to relocate people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast and place them in internment camps throughout the interior of the country. As the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) report stated, the forced removal and mass incarceration was the result of racism, opportunism and a failure of political leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rafu.com\/news\/2012\/02\/ancestry-com-commemorates-internment-with-free-access-to-databases\/\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article posted at rafu.com: In remembrance of the 70th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s Executive Order 9066, which placed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps, Ancestry.com, the world\u2019s largest online family <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=17153\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Ancestry.com Offers FREE Access to its Japanese Internment Camp Record Collections Until Midnight ET Feb. 23, 2012<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,120,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-japan","category-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17156,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions\/17156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}