PRESERVED IS PRESERVED FOREVER! HIS MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME WAS FISH, WHICH ILLUSTRATES WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS PRONOUNCE ALL OF THE VARIATIONS OF A NAME BEFORE BLESSING A CHILD WITH THEIR NAME. MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE THE 1ST EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES OCCURRED IN 1862. ACTUALLY, THERE WAS AN EARLIER EMANCIPATION...
AMERICANS HAVING HARD FEELINGS AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE UNPOPULAR HERITAGE IS NOT NEW The article on the very top was recently shared on a historical forum. I was surprised to see my great grandfather as a signee. I suspect many of our ancestors had hard feelings against those who descended from countries we were fighting in wars. DANCESTORS HAS SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS FOR THOSE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR ROOTS! Digital records from the 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/digital-records-19th-century-give-black-families-glimpse-ancestry-rcna2060?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm GRAVEYARD TREATS! A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make...
AN ODD APPROACH TO ENDING SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806 – February 1, 1873) was an American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator, and naval officer for the United States and then the Confederacy. He was a devout Christian and, after reading Psalm 8:8, was determined to find "the paths of the seas". He was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology" and later, "Scientist of the Seas" for his extensive works in his books, especially The Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), the first such extensive and comprehensive...
OLD BONES FOR FERTILIZER? In the 1700's Europe's fields were becoming exhausted. The solution became to use the bones of dead soldiers amongst others to fertilize the fields. Fortunately, a replacement fertilizer was found in the Chincha Islands off of Peru in the form of Guano, 150 feet deep. In November 1802, Prussian geographer and explorer Alexander von Humboldt first encountered guano and began investigating its fertilizing properties at Callao in Peru, and his subsequent writings on this topic made the subject well known in Europe. As many as 160 ships at a time were anchored off the islands while the "hard to recruit" guano...
What would Ben do? The article above is from 1724 Edinburgh, Scotland. It speaks to the beginnings of inoculation. I have included articles below from early London and 1869 New York City, showing that in the past there has been people on both sides of the discussion of to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. Lots of the wisdom we have heard since school days came from Ben Franklin. One of his many interests was public health. Here is some interesting perspective from Ben's early days dealing with smallpox: https://www.firstpost.com/living/how-benjamin-franklin-championed-science-to-a-colonial-america-divided-over-smallpox-inoculation-9783321.html Doug's relatives thought brevity made the point better than a long exhaustive obituary. So, if...
What makes a sport or game Olympic? Over the years, sports and games (as in Olympic games), have been added and removed. While all events involved competition, they often involved activities that the host country might have an advantage of. In 1912, the IOC removed motorboating since it was not human-powered, which became another definition of an Olympic sport. From 1912 to 1948, they had Olympic Art medals, where you could enter your Olympic-themed artwork. The idea of the artworks being medal-worthy came from Baron Pierre de Coubertin (see his name on the left). Coincidentally he won an award for a poem...
The article above is from 1915. Haiti has had 59 presidents since it's founding in 1804.. Other than the 3 presidents who served under U.S. occupation only 9 of those 59 served full terms in office. The other 50 were overthrown, executed, died in office, committed suicide and various other factors that prematurely ended their terms. Fourteen living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci are identified Let Dancestors find out who the geniuses are in your family tree! https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/fourteen-living-descendants-leonardo-da-vinci-are-identified-rcna1402?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm The Rayburn Story (the name changed for privacy purposes). We recently had an inquiry for someone looking for their suspected biological father. They thought the name might...
The ratification of the US Constitution in 1790, was celebrated in a similar fashion as a day of Independence On May 4, 1776, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and it was the fourth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, doing so on February 9, 1778. The state boycotted the 1787 convention, which drew up the United States Constitution and initially refused to ratify it, it was the last of the original 13 states to do so, on May 29, 1790. NEW GIFT ITEMS...
JUNETEENTH The Galveston article above contains the exact order given by Major General Granger, that we now celebrate as Juneteenth. The article to the left had appeared in Columbia, SC, a few days earlier and is similar. The exhortations in the orders are, in essence, saying, you are free and equal now. The military can no longer support you in our camps. You need to figure out a way to make a living, improve yourself and your family, and be a good citizen. NEW GIFT ITEMS ON OUR WEBSITE! Please visit our website: www.dancestorsgenealogy.com and click on the Shop tab, and you can view our...
A count of families in the fifteen slave-holding states in 1860: ▪ 73,230 members of families holding 50 or more slaves or 1% ▪ 986,895 members of families holding 5 - 49 slaves or 12% ▪ 931,280 members of families holding 1 - 4 slaves or 11% ▪ 6,120,825 non-slaveholding whites or 75% I would not have guessed that 75% of "southern families in 1860" were not slaveholders. The Man Who Inspired Father’s Day Was a Single Dad and a Civil War Vet written by John D. Trausch Father’s Day is a relatively new holiday, having only become “official” in 1972. But its origins go back to a...
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