HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!! Mother's Day became an official holiday in 1907. However, it was being celebrated (at least by advertisers) as early as 1902, when this ad was run. You thought the risk of catching COVID on a cruise ship was bad, look at what our ancestors went through...
John Morris was a Daguerrotypist, meaning he used an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor. Before John enlisted in the Arkansas 4th Confederate Infantry, he had a color tintype photograph made of own family- wife Nancy, and toddler son, Thomas Ruffin Morris. After the color tintype...
WE HAVE HEARD A LOT LATELY ABOUT FILIBUSTERS. DID YOU KNOW THE WORD EVOLVED FROM A TERM FOR BUCCANERING AND THEN FOR FOMENTING INSURRECTION (NOW ANOTHER TOO FAMILIAR TERM)? Originally, the Spanish form filibustero applied to French, Dutch, and English privateers and buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, with whom Spain...
HAVE A HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY AND STAY AWAY FROM GREEN BEER! Does this guy seem familiar? Would you say he has an honest face? Would you vote for him? Check out him and some of his peers with their modern look at the link below. https://mymodernmet.com/modern-presidents-magdalene-visaggio The Underground Railroad allowed many escaped slaves to gain...
Happy belated Valentine's Day! Above is an advertisement from 1750 London (in those days the letter "s" was written as "f"). If you would like to know if this is how your ancestors got married, click on the red button below and let Dancestors get the answer! DNA is big business....
In Britain, impeachment was more the norm than the exception. You can read above the notice regarding Robert, the Earl of Oxford's (pictured to the right) 1717 trial. Every time there was a change in who was King, or who were the trusted government officials, the prior administrators were at a...
The article above is about George Washington's 1789 inauguration, our nation's first. Certainly a different military presence. I just got a note from Ancestry.com telling me that I have built 76 family trees, placed 108,000 family members and ancestors into those trees, attached 110,000 records, and uploaded 15,000 photos. Other than...
HISTORY OFTEN REPEATS ITSELF! The news cycle keeps saying that the last time the U.S. Capitol was attacked was during the War of 1812. Not sure how or why they all missed discovering this occurrence. The last time the U.S. Capitol was attacked was in 1971. Ironically, the bombing was attributed...
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM DANCESTORS! ================================================================== The clip below was printed in Dublin, Ireland, on December 31, 1776 Back in 1909, they did not worry about tire tracks, footprints, and DNA. They could get you with a good set of hoofprints! Do not worry about those tracks on your roof. They...
As this 1829 wanted ad shows, you could get a $572 reward from the Territorial Governor and the respectable and responsible townspeople if you could catch John Smith! Since everyone has a John Smith in their family tree, let Dancestors find out if this is your John Smith! SO AT SOME POINT...
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