LEGACY -Newsletter- April 8, 2023

05 Apr LEGACY -Newsletter- April 8, 2023

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 the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 0.33 miles (0.53 km) wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago east of City Island.
The island has been used as a:
• training ground for the United States Colored Troops in 1864
• Union Civil War prison camp
• psychiatric institution
• tuberculosis sanatorium
• potter’s field with over 1 million burials
• homeless shelter
• boys’ reformatory
• jail
• drug rehabilitation center
• Nike defense missiles station
And now it is turning into an NYC Park.

Read more here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/nyregion/hart-island-cemetery-park.html

LEGACY TONY DANZA, MARIO LOPEZ, TERRY CREWS AND OTHER CELEBRITIES DISCOVER THEIR LEGACY ON FINDING YOUR ROOTS

On a trip to the Big Apple we were in Little Italy we spotted Tony. I walked and asked if we could get a picture with him, and he looked a little disappointed when he thought I wanted a picture with him, but then he lit up, when he realized it was my daughter.

Tony’s story is in the attached article. https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/tony-danza-finding-your-roots-rcna76249?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

LEGACY ANOTHER WEALTHY PERSON YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT

Alexander Turney Stewart (October 12, 1803 – April 10, 1876) was an American entrepreneur who moved to New York and made his multimillion-dollar fortune in the most extensive and lucrative dry goods store in the world.
Stewart was born in Lisburn, Ulster, Ireland, and abandoned his original aspirations of becoming a Presbyterian minister to go to New York City in 1823. He spent a short time teaching before returning to Ireland to receive the money his grandfather had left him, purchase some Belfast linens and laces, and return to New York to open a store.
Stewart had extraordinary skill in business, and by 1848 he had built a large marble-fronted store on Broadway between Chambers Street and Reade Street, which was devoted to the wholesale branch of his business. In 1862 he built a new store covering an entire city block between Broadway and Fourth Avenue and between 9th and 10th streets. It was eight stories tall and attracted the wonder and business of upscale New York. Trainloads of wealthy customers from outlying cities came to shop.
Stewart made most of his money through wholesaling and especially New York City real estate. He opened branches of the company in other parts of the world and owned several mills and factories. He had an annual income of US$1,843,637 in 1863 (equivalent to $32.5 million in 2021). His business success left quite a legacy and is estimated to have made him one of the twenty wealthiest people in history as of 2007, with a fortune equivalent to approximately US$90 billion in 2012.

LEGACY WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Above are the 50+ worst baby names that appeared on birth certificates.

Of course, we had an earlier article on Preserved Fish Dakin-
https://dancestorsgenealogy.com/dancestors-genealogy-newsletter-october-16-2021/

Here is an example where the “Baby’s Name Is So Bad Mom Is Accused Of Child Abuse”, see the article:
https://kost1035.iheart.com/content/2023-03-21-babys-name-is-so-bad-mom-is-accused-of-child-abuse/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Popular baby names from Roaring ’20s that could make a comeback, according to the ‘100-year rule.’ All names create a legacy for your family.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/popular-baby-names-from-roaring-20s-that-could-make-a-comeback-according-to-100-year-rule?mibextid=Zxz2cZ#lfph9vcjxc71unzktf

LEGACY WHAT ABOUT JEHOSOPHAT, JETHRO, AND JUBER?

Why Are All Action Heroes Named Jack, James, or John?

Read the full story-
https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/john-wick-james-bond-action-heroes-j-names.html

LEGACY WE DROVE THROUGH THE ZONE OF DEATH!

One of my favorite backpack trips went from Old Faithful over Shoshone Pass and down the Bechler River Valley, ending at the Bechler River Station. To get back to our other car at Old Faithful we drove on one of the few roads that enters the Zone of Death.

We did not know that we were flirting with danger.

The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a reported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person could theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.

Most Americans closest encounter was while watching the TV series Yellowstone, where enemies of the Dutton family are taken across the border into Wyoming and are executed and disposed of “at the train station”. It is implied that the rules of the “Zone of Death” apply to this practice, including the location’s juxtaposition with “three States” (Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho) and the lack of ability to prosecute crimes:

Walker: Why y’all dump ’em here?
Lloyd: Because no one lives within a hundred miles. It’s a county with no people, no sheriff, and no 12 jurors of your peers.

LEGACY WHERE IS FAYETTEVILLE OR COLUMBUS CAN MEAN DIFFERENT PLACES DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE

I searched for Homer Simpson’s hometown, but you can enter any name into this site to see where the most common places with such a name exist and what exact place people think of when the term is used.

https://pudding.cool/2023/03/same-name/

LEGACY YOUR ANCESTORS ARE WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED!

Reach out to Dancestors and let us research, discover, and preserve your family legacy. No one is getting any younger, and stories disappear from memory every year and eventually from our potential ability to find them. Paper gets thrown in the trash; books survive! So do not hesitate and call me @ 214-914-3598.