We drove the few mileswest from Ashforkto Seligmanand quickly found the public library. This small library was housed in adouble wide mobile home. The library was
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We drove the few mileswest from Ashforkto Seligmanand quickly found the public library. This small library was housed in adouble wide mobile home. The library was
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Family Tree Connection has added the following genealogy items to its database:
American Friendly Society Officers - American Friendly Society, Incorporated Under Massachusetts Laws, 1889, For Men between Ages 18 and 55 years. Supreme Office, No. 20 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. [This item is undated]
Algard's School 1911-12 Souvenir - Algard's School, Bedminster Twp., 1911-12. Includes names of teacher and pupils.
Algard's School 1910 Souvenir - Algard's School, Bedminster Twp., Bucks Co., Pa. Apri
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Udo Thoerner’s History of Emigration
from Venne, Germany to America
Thörner, Udo. Venne in America: The historical account of the emigration from a Lower Saxony Village in Germany to the Americas in the 19th century. Rosalie Horstman Haines, tr.; 323 pp., 2008. ($32, incl $4 pstg from Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 15865, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215; checks payable to HCCOGS).
Venne in America portrays in unbelievable detail the 19th century mass emigration from a village
I became solidly hooked on Genealogy when our friend and historian Udo Thoerner showed my husband and me the Büning ancestral home, a farm cottage, in the village of Venne, Germany with the names of his 4th-ggrandparents inscribed over the door and the year 1704 by the builder's name . What led us to this discovery was Thoerner's twenty years of curiosity and research about what happened to over 2000 emigrants from his home village of Venne and neighboring farm communities in Westfalen, northwes
# J. Newman and Sons, Undated, Trade Card
# Mease, Chas, 1911, Cradle Roll Birthday Greeting
# Deranja, Ann, 1965, Obituary Clipping
# Rothermel, Laura, 1898, Certificate of Confirmation
# Sanders, Rachel, Undated, Photograph
# Keeling, C. F., 1936, Political Campaign Card
# Eyrich, Elias, 1878, Marriage Certificate
# Beverly Hills O. E. S., 1949, Installation of Officers
# Fannie Farmer Cooking Class, Undated, Postcard
# Schrack, Sallie, 1896, Confirmation Certificate
# U. S. S. Los Angeles, Un
The series seem to get better with each episode. I want to comment on the white glove situation.
I recently was handling a book and felt the white gloves were stressing the pages so this is what
I did. I put the gloved hand on the page that was holding the pages and gently used the end of my
finger (ungloved) to move the pages. I think it did the book much less harm.
Sometimes it's a common sense thing,
The Duchess of Alba, the grandest grandee in Spain, is said to be able to cross the country from north to south without leaving her estates, and to possess more titles than the Queen of England. She is one of the wealthiest women in the entire world. She has 44 noble titles and 150 hereditary titles. Her name is splashed on headlines in Europe more than the Octomom, Michael Jackson and Angelina Jolie combined in the United States.
I married a Spaniard, and in all our trips to visit the in-laws i
As the story has it, his name was Juan Ramirez, and he was a bullfighter. His father
Due to the Catholic Church's excommunication of bullfighters, the union was frowned upon. Refugio supposedly left Jua
