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15 Jun

GENEALOGIST- BLACKSTONE BEATS GENETIC PRIVACY LAWSUIT Some folks were upset about or did not know that Blackstone had purchased Ancestry.com back in 2020, and sued, but the suit was dismissed, see the link: https://www.kirkland.com/news/in-the-news/2023/05/calling-lawsuit-bare-bones-7th-circuit-rejects-genetic-privacy-claims-over-ancestry-com-acquisition However, it's not like Blackstone bought it from a bunch of genealogists. It was previously owned by at...

02 Jun

GENEALOGY- MORE ABOUT DARIEN- GEORGIA THAT IS, AND THE SCOTSMEN'S ATTEMPTS TO PROHIBIT SLAVERY, AND LETTING DAUGHTERS INHERIT LAND The British built Fort King George in 1721 (see picture), near what would become Darien. At the time, it was the southernmost outpost of the British Empire in North America. The fort...

17 May

ANCESTORS- DARIEN GAP HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY We all know Teddy Roosevelt led the building of the Panama Canal. However, I bet you didn't know that his Great-Great Grandfather had been there 200 years earlier as part of the Darien Scheme. Teddy may have wondered where are my ancestors...

04 May

GENEALOGY IS FUN- YOU CAN HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Nearly 30 years after his death, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed...

19 Apr

FAMILY HISTORY- THE INTER-CONTINENTAL TRAIN FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK WILL FINALLY PUT FORT NELSON ON THE MAP! Snowpiercer is a fictional train, its 1,001 cars carrying humanity’s last survivors as it endlessly loops a frozen Earth. Shown on this map, the InterContinental Railway (ICR for short) doesn’t quite go all...

05 Apr

LEGACY A NEW HANGOUT FOR GENEALOGISTS? A million bodies are buried here. So now It’s becoming a park. Hart Island, a potter’s field where part of New York City's legacy is that they have buried its unclaimed dead for over a century, will finally accept visitors this year. Hart Island is located at...

22 Mar

Genealogist --HOW EARLY MODERN EUROPEANS VIEWED PREGNANCY AND THE WOMB-- Genealogist When the womb began to appear in printed images during the 16th century, it was understood through analogy: a garden, uroscopy flask, or microcosm of the universe. Rebecca Whiteley explores early modern birth figures, which picture the foetus in utero,...

08 Mar

GEORGE WASHINGTON AND OTHER ANCESTORS HEAD TO OUTER SPACE Buckle up dead American presidents, you’re going to space whether you like it or not. The DNA of four past US presidents will be blasted into deep space as part of a symbolic space burial flight alongside a number of high-flying names,...

22 Feb

HERITAGE THE ARTICLE ABOVE SOUNDS LIKE A TESLA AD If only Elon had hired Harry's wife! However, that's an ad for 1926 Jewett-Six. The Jewett was an automobile built in Detroit, Michigan by the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company from March 1922 through December 1926. The Jewett was named after Harry M. Jewett, president...

09 Feb

GENEALOGY WE HAD A TEN PERSON SUPREME COURT Genealogy When Lincoln became president in 1861, seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union, yet half of the Supreme Court justices were Southerners, including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland. One other Southern member had died in 1860, without replacement....

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