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As I was driving past Mount Sumach Cemetery this weekend, I happened to notice a headstone with my last name. I almost didn’t stop, because I could tell from the road that it was a relatively modern stone. However, it was Saturday afternoon and I had time, so I turned around. The stone in question turned . . . → : CONTINUE READING
I’ve been toying with the idea of a Footnote subscription for some time and have even taken advantage of their seven-day free trial a few times. I finally decided to go for it. The item I found this morning makes it all worthwhile.
I’ve been researching my ancestor, Walter Ellis, Revolutionary War Veteran, in preparation for a . . . → : CONTINUE READING
Death certificates can contain very interesting causes of death, or the “usual” causes of death such asheart disease and cancer. I discovered two certificates for my husband’sItalian side that caused quite a stir in the family when I revealed howthese men died.
First we have Fortunato Fratto. Fortunato was born about 1854 in Taverna, Italy. He immigrated to the United States 21 November 1890 andset his sights on Chicago. Fortunato died 31 January 1921 in Chicago,Illinois due to what the death cer
Some historical facts:
Upon hearing of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Princess Ka’iulani left England for the United States. They landed at New York City. On March 4, 1893, the day before Grover Cleveland’s inauguration as President, the seventeen year old Princess Ka’iulani and her guardian Mr. Theo Davies headed to Boston to visit his son, Clive, a student at MIT. Clive met them at the train station in Boston, and they checked into the Hotel Brunswick. The Davies treated the Princess t
In a recent post John Newmark of TransylvanianDutchraised a veryinteresting issue involving RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feedsand feed readers such as Roots Feed. Heincluded a number of links to
My g-g-grandmother’s name was Barbara Baxter. I have very little information about her.
She was married to Francis Marion Kendrick on 16 Apr 1871. I can place the two of them, along with various children, in the 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses, always living in the Alaculsey District of Murray County, Georgia. She was born . . . → : CONTINUE READING
For a good part of my life, I had a tin cracker box filled with old letters. Most of these were letters sent to me by old boyfriends, away at college or otherwise separated from me and declaring their affections. There were also some letters from friends off on a big adventure somewhere and I found them so well written, the details of their experiences so juicy that I chose to save them. There were a few letters from one of my parents who acknowledged me for something that I had done or shared t
A story to celebrate the 145th Juneteenth
How did a runaway slave from Philadelphia come to New Hampshire? And why was she instantly recognized? Well, she belonged to George Washington, and he had served the last part of his presidency in Philadelphia. Elizabeth, daughter of Senator John Langdon, had seen this slave woman when visiting the First Lady. The Chief Secretary to Washington was Tobias Lear, a Portsmouth native, who also knew the runaway by sight.
Ona Judge Staines was the daughter of a
National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from
1836 to 1922. The newspapers will first appear on the Library of
Congress's Chronicling America Web site and will later be added to the
University of Tennessee Library's Web site. They will be digitized over the next two years.
Here is a link with more details:
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2010/06/17/ut-library-digitize-newspapers/
This is great news for me, since
If it meant 5th year of his reign, but if so why not just say 1404?
I discovered that this is the system of regnal years which in medieval times was more commonly reckoned from 25 March (or sometimes from 25 December). In England, and later the United Kingdom, until 1963, each Act of Parliament was defined by its serial number within the regnal year in which
The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings docume
I am not a big user of social networking sites. About fifteen months ago, I opened a Facebook account to explore sharing photos with family. I decided to go another route and never looked at FB again. Occasionally, I'd get friend request emails which I ignored. Couldn't figure out why I was getting them, because, as far as I knew, my account was "invisible.” As it turns out, if one's email is in someone's address book, and they authorize FB to send invites to their address book, well, then peopl
