Author: Dan

15 Dec

Posted at 12:53h in Newsletter

ANCESTORS- HENRY LOWRY THE ROBIN HOOD OF ROBESON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The Confederate government used conscription to force many locals to work on the construction of various forts around the Cape Fear River area for very little pay. Several Lowry cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color, had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher. The Lowry Gang was initially started to aid those hiding from conscription. Other residents resorted to "lying out" (hiding in the region's swamps) to avoid being rounded up by the Confederate Home Guard and forced to work for low wages. As...

01 Dec

Posted at 12:51h in Newsletter

GENEALOGIST- THE GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE OF 1877 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. This strike finally ended 52 days later, after it was put down by unofficial militias, the National Guard, and federal troops. Because of economic problems and pressure on wages by the railroads, workers in numerous other cities, in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, into Illinois and Missouri, also went out on strike. An estimated 100 people were...

17 Nov

Posted at 11:26h in Newsletter

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- THE HAPPIEST AND LEAST HAPPY STATES IN AMERICA! I get Utah, being the happiest state for the reasons they mentioned above. Vermont is the chill part of the Northeast. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska have those good old-fashioned midwestern values. Colorado and Wyoming have the "outdoorsyness" of Utah. In the 60s you have more outdoorsy western states like Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Idaho, and Montana along with brightly-lit Nevada. More midwestern places like North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina bring the mid-eastern states into the rankings, along with New York the cultural icon. In...

03 Nov

Posted at 10:48h in Newsletter

FAMILY HISTORY- SANTA CLAUS' TOMB HAS BEEN DISCOVERED- AND YOU CAN VISIT- Archaeologists claim to have found the grave of Saint Nicholas beneath a church in Turkey Kids, don’t let anyone tell you Santa Claus isn’t real. Or, more accurately, that he wasn’t real. When we’re talking about Santa Claus, we are, of course, really talking about Saint Nicholas of Myra: a bishop who lived from AD 270 to 343. He’s the guy that the Santa Claus myth is based on, thanks to his reputed habit of distributing gifts to the poor and needy. And he is apparently buried under St Nicholas...

20 Oct

Posted at 11:24h in Newsletter

GENEALOGIST- APPARENTLY, THE MOVIE WAS A BOX OFFICE BUST, BUT IT WAS AN INTERESTING STORY! GENEALOGIST- The Business Plot (also called the Wall Street Putsch and The White House Putsch) was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install a dictator. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler asserted that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under oath before the United States House of Representatives...

06 Oct

Posted at 16:55h in Newsletter

FIND MY ANCESTORS THE DANISH QUEEN LOOKS TO NORMALIZE THE LIFE OF ROYAL FAMILY MEMBERS NOT LIKELY TO INHERIT THE THRONE The The Queen of Denmark has stripped some royal titles from four of her grandchildren, in a move criticised by her youngest son. Queen Margrethe II has two sons: Crown Prince Frederik, who is the heir to the throne, and his brother Prince Joachim. While the princes each have four children of their own, from 1 January next year Joachim's children will no longer be allowed to call themselves Prince or Princesses - a title they currently hold. Instead, they will only...

22 Sep

Posted at 12:14h in Newsletter

HIRE A GENEALOGIST- QUEEN ELIZABETH NOT ONLY HAD LONG LINES WAITING TO SEE HER AT REST BUT ALSO WHEN SHE WAS A BABY Genealogists say the picture above is with her Grandmother Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 29 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Genealogists say that she was born and raised in the United Kingdom, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German...

08 Sep

Posted at 08:38h in Newsletter

FAMILY TREE- PRETTY SURE THIS WAS JOE BLOW'S BROTHER! AND MORE ON FORGERY The article below shows what they did in the 1730s with forgers. What will happen to the forger in the latest case with Naomi Judd? Read here: https://meaww.com/naomi-judd-will-questioned-handwriting-expert-traced-signature-initials?fs=e&s=cl#l6pp8teuj8i1quh36mo   FAMILY TREE- I WONDER IF THE PRODUCERS OF HOUSE OF DRAGONS AND GAME OF THRONES HAVE STAFF GENEALOGISTS? There is a lot to keep track of between these shows and others on how people are related. Who is trying to kill a cousin, sibling, uncle or aunt. Then there was King Geoffrey the child of siblings, now that's a very thin family tree. FAMILY TREE-...

25 Aug

Posted at 12:01h in Newsletter

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE KING FREDERICK III OF DENMARK AND OTHER SCANDINAVIAN FASHION SURPRISES I came across the story of an early Scandinavian naval crew aboard the Swedish Man-of-War Kronan. The forces were entirely male, and no women were allowed on board ships engaged in warfare. As a result, traditional women's chores were performed by men who decked themselves out with feminine articles such as handbags and purses made of embroidered silken material with braided tassels, patterned silk ribbons, and silk rosettes, silk yarn, and sewing cases. Such articles were just as common as muskets and guns at the site of the...

10 Aug

Posted at 23:01h in Newsletter

GENEALOGY- IN CASE YOU EVER WANT TO BE A TRAINRIDER HERE ARE SOME TIPS! While on a recent trip up to the border of Montana and Idaho, I met a “trainrider”. He and three of his train riding buddies now worked at a mountain café. He shared tales that reminded me of my grandfather’s stories of riding the rails in the 1930s during the depression. Of course, back then, they were called hobos. Here is some insight into the early “trainriders.” The hobo is familiar as a character from kitsch art and silent film and feels like a romantic caricature today. But...

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