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...
How a Lincoln-Douglass debate led to a historic discovery. The last article in the newsletter shows you the type of detail that Dancestors' exhaustive research can reveal! Two history professors’ text-message debate led to the discovery of a long-forgotten letter showing how Frederick Douglass felt about a statue of Abraham Lincoln and a slave that’s now under national scrutiny. Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://apple.news/ARVwTIkiqRc2f7_ERmZ16LA What if your ancestor was a Confederate General? Why the descendants of Confederate generals are happy to see their names go away. As the Senate prepares to debate renaming military bases, we called living family members of the generals. Click...
Good morning to the living (who get the other 363 days), I’ve included below the link and Wikipedia article for Days of the Dead for further knowledge. This year the Days of the Dead are celebrated from October 31st until November 2nd. Of course, we all know what day falls into that span- Halloween! Halloween’s icons include the black clad witches upon their brooms as some of us grew up seeing in the Wizard of Oz. It made me wonder how many witches or witchcraft stories exist in our family histories? So I did an inventory, and I thought you’d be interested in...
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