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Ancestry.com announced the release of the first and only online collection of border crossing records for individuals who crossed the U.S. – Mexico border between 1903 and 1957. This new collection, which includes more than 3.5 million names, is the latest addition to Ancestry.com’s Immigration Records Collection, which also includes the largest online collection of U.S. ship passenger list records featuring more than 100 million names from 1820 to 1960.

A college degree can translate into higher earnings for workers in Puerto Rico — about twice as much on average as those with just a high school diploma — according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS). The contrast in annual earnings was even greater for people with advanced degrees, who earned about three times as much as those with a high school degree.

HispanicAd.com announced the winners of the 7th Annual Excelencia Media Planning Awards at a luncheon during The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) semi-annual conference in Chicago on Thursday April 26, 2007.

HispanicAd.com presented awards for the best media plans in nine categories as well as the “Gran Plan,” and the Media Executive of the Year.

Nancy Tellet – VP Director of Strategic Planning at Siboney USA was honored by her peers with the “HispanicAd.com 2006 Media Planning Executive of the Year” award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday April 26, 2007.

Javier Saralegui – President of Univision Communications online division Univision.com – was honored by his peers in receiving the 2006 HispanicAd.com ‘Media Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in Chicago, Illinois on Friday April 27, 2007.

On March 31, at a gathering of the National Federation of Republican Women, the former speaker of the house and possible presidential candidate equated Spanish to “the language of living in a ghetto.”

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Latino International Theatre Festival of New York, Inc. announced the launch of TeatroStageFest, a two week theater festival showcasing the sights and sounds of award-winning theatre companies, performers, playwrights and directors from New York City, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The festival, which will run from April 30 through May 13, 2007, is expected to draw more than 5,000 theater-goers at seven venues in the emerging Fourth Arts Block of the East Fourth Street Cultural District and surrounding areas creating New York’s own Calle Cuatro.

In his controversial new book, “Clipping Their Own Wings,” author Ernesto Caravantes tackles one of the nation’s most troubling trends and toughest social problems: Latino underachievement, and focuses the root of the problem squarely on the shoulders of the Latino culture itself. Hispanics are now, officially, the largest minority population with 35 million living in the U.S., exceeding African Americans in number. Despite the sizeable numbers, this minority group is doing poorly in education.

The Microsoft Corp Chairman Praises The Success Of Navega Protegido, A Joint Program Of Ricky Martin’s Charitable Foundation And Microsoft, Aimed At Protecting Children & Families Across Latin America From Hazards On The Internet Such As Identity Or Asset Theft And Child Predators

Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico, celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force of 4,500 men faced 6,000 well-trained men of the French Army. The battle lasted four hours and ended in a victory for the Mexican Army under Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza. Along with Mexican Independence Day on Sept. 16, Cinco de Mayo has become a time to celebrate Mexican heritage and culture.

For the fifth consecutive year, Merrill Lynch will present arteaméricas, the premier exhibition of Latin American artists, showcasing more than 300 renowned and emerging talents from 70 of the most prestigious art galleries of Latin America, the United States and Europe.

A recent study found that 80 percent of Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) scholarship recipients graduated in five and a half years – a graduation rate that is almost 30 percent higher than the national average for students of all races and ethnicities for the same period. The six-year national graduation rate for all Hispanics students at four-year institutions is 43.5 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

An annotated bibliography with insights from over 50 articles related to Hispanic Marketing has been released by the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication at Florida State University. The bibliography provides a synopsis of the objectives, methods, findings, and implications of each article.

Your kids may have fewer schoolbooks to carry than you did.

It may not be their online activity of first choice, but preteens really are going online to do homework.

According to new data from Experian Simmons, 48% of children ages 6-11 had played online games at least once in the preceding month. Nothing shocking there. The second most common online activity for this age group was visiting favorite Web sites, with 25% of the respondents doing so in the preceding month.