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 was made, John left his wife and child in the care of his parents, Harrison Ruffin Morris & Martha Ann Cheatham Morris because Nancy's parents were both dead and her sister had a large family of her own and was unable to have Nancy and her son live with them. John...
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 was constantly at war. However, it was later applied to the military expeditions of Narciso López in Cuba, who fomented a revolution, and liberated the island from Spanish rule. It designated American adventurer William Walker who, influenced by López, launched several filibustering campaigns in former Spanish colonies in Central America. So...
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 their freedom by feeling northward as far as Canada. I had never heard about a southern version of the Underground Railroad that led south into Mexico. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/28/971325620/a-chapter-in-u-s-history-often-ignored-the-flight-of-runaway-slaves-to-mexico? [video width="620" height="412" mp4="https://dancestorsgenealogy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/my_heritage_photo.0.mp4"][/video] Movie cameras did not become widely available until 1923. Even if you had a reel of film from the 1920's it would not be...
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 December 2020, Blackstone purchased Ancestry.com. Now, 23andme (which interestingly was co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, the spouse of Google co-founder Sergey Brin) is going public by merging with Richard's company Branson. Maybe they will become Virgin DNA? Does gaining the knowledge of our DNA and our ancestry give us the proper...
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 minimum put into the Tower of London for a while (Oxford served a couple of years), at a maximum they were put to death, If you saw your power waning it was a good time to go abroad, meanwhile all of your estates would be distributed to the new "favourites."...
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 my own tree that is all since 2015. Contact me and let's get started on your tree, and we can set some Guinness records together! You can use Dancestors Genealogy to find out more about your ancestors, or you can buy a Tesla and drive it into the graveyard. https://youtu.be/gYGS-FJq3vg I spend a...
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 are Santa's Reindeer tracks. In 1867, there was fake news and challenges to presidential authority. Likely in another 150 years, there will be someone like me pointing out how politics had not changed that much since way back in 2020...
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 IN THE FUTURE COULD A WOMAN GIVE BIRTH TO HER GREAT AUNT OR UNCLE? Frozen embryos of the 1990s are now being implanted in today's mothers. The embryo is the age of the mother's aunts and uncles. This could make for some interesting family trees! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/science/tennessee-embryo-donate.html? OR COULD THERE BE EMBRYOS FROM THE...
HOW PURE WERE THOSE PURITANS? As we have covered in other stories, there was plenty of impure behavior. You can read about it in the links below. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-11-28-0211280291-story.html https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/When-those-Puritans-weren-t-so-very-pure-2745842.php If you would like to know if your Puritan ancestors made the naughty or nice list reach out to Dancestors by clicking on the red button below, reach out to Dancestors Genealogy @ 214-914-3598, or and let us preserve your legacy. HOW LONG HAVE BLACK FRIDAY SALES BEEN AROUND? The ads above and below come from the 1880's much earlier than most sources give for the origination of the term. WHEN WAS THE FIRST THANKSGIVING RECORDED...
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