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15 May

Posted at 11:22h in Newsletter

How long before your kids start talking about DNA? They think it stands for "Dan Nelson's Ancestry," but here is a resource if you want to set them straight: https://owlcation.com/academia/explaining-dna-to-a-six-year-old Vaccines a gift or curse- the arguments come around every time. During the World Wars, you had the British citizens fearing the risk of bringing in unvaccinated refugees (below) and Belgian citizens fearing the German-provided vaccines were poison (right). It seems that medical fitness was of concern to the authorities dealing with the arrivals from Belgium, not just those refugees who had been wounded in the fighting. At an early volunteer meeting for this...

01 May

Posted at 23:01h in Newsletter

    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...

17 Apr

Posted at 12:49h in Newsletter

There is a lot of controversy about changes in election laws. One issue was providing water and food to people waiting to vote. It used to be common for candidates to provide alcohol to their voters (see above). Sometimes the alcohol and food were labeled with the candidate's name or logo. They must have felt that they could influence those "under the influence."! When I was a kid, I remember my grandpa telling me the story of when he was a kid (age 11), that he remembered older boys coming to the farm and telling him and his older brother, who was...

17 Apr

Posted at 10:43h in Newsletter

  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...

03 Apr

Posted at 16:33h in Newsletter

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...

20 Mar

Posted at 15:52h in Newsletter

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...

06 Mar

Posted at 16:18h in Newsletter

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...

20 Feb

Posted at 19:01h in Newsletter

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...

06 Feb

Posted at 10:27h in Newsletter

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."...

24 Jan

Posted at 16:24h in Newsletter

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...

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