Discover my family tree- October 3, 2020

04 Oct Discover my family tree- October 3, 2020

Posted at 20:29h in Newsletter by Dan

Contents

1 Do not wait for your family’s stories to disappear! Click on the red button below, reach out to Dancestors Genealogy @ 214-914-3598, or and let us preserve your legacy.
2 The President was sick with the deadly Spanish Flu. The news was kept secret.
3 Did people marry their 1st cousins?
4 Did they not smile because they were miserable?
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8 Following up on the Golden State Killer article
9 Native Americans slaves and rebel soldiers?
10 Symbols of the Enchanted Forest? Witch and King’s Marks Carved into English Trees
11 Vikings in Ireland: Traces of Warriors Not Just Buried Beneath the Ground, They Are in the DNA

Do not wait for your family’s stories to disappear! Click on the red button below, reach out to Dancestors Genealogy @ 214-914-3598, or and let us preserve your legacy.

The President was sick with the deadly Spanish Flu. The news was kept secret.

When President Woodrow Wilson got the Spanish Flu while in Europe for peace talks, did his illness and its impact affect his fortitude and pave the way for World War II?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-when-woodrow-wilson-came-down-1918-flu-180975972/

Did people marry their 1st cousins?

This article was from 1901, but earlier, yes, close family marriages did occur. Why? There were several reasons. Families tended to move west together with their siblings’ families. They all belonged to the same church. They had large amounts of developed and undeveloped land between them and the neighbors.
Sunday church services were the most likely place to meet your future spouse. After asking permission, the young man would ask the young lady’s parents to ride with her by wagon (if he was of means) or by horseback. They would ride a respectable distance in front of the parents back to her house, with the parents close enough to discourage any hanky panky. After an early supper, he would leave to get back home before dark and ensure the young couple was not visiting without full light. So with all of the hanky panky prevention methods in place, there was not a lot of courting time for a young man to scour the countryside for a marriage worthy non-relative.

Did they not smile because they were miserable?

Likely not, but here are the reasons I have read over the years:
– It took a long time to get a proper exposure, so it was easier to “not move” with a frown than a smile.
– Smiling in a picture indicated a lack of decorum and suggested to others that you were a bit of an idiot.
If I had to choose, my most likely is that the posers often did not have such pretty teeth. There was no preventative dental care, orthodontia, and well water contained a lot of tooth-staining minerals.

Following up on the Golden State Killer article

If you do not want the police to use your DNA and risk the capture of a “bad apple” relative, in the master DNA database, you can turn off police access. The emoji that shows on or off is to the right.

Native Americans slaves and rebel soldiers?

In the last newsletter, I shared that there Native Americans placed into slavery. Did you know that there were also Native American Confederate soldiers? Here is a 1903 reunion picture from New Orleans of a group of Cherokee Confederate soldiers who served in Thomas’ Legion.