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WOW, 109 BILLION PEOPLE HAVE LIVED AND DIED!
Dancestors Genealogy has discovered and preserved 131,000 people in our research over the last seven years, so we still have a lot of work to get them all into a family tree!
DANCESTORS IS DOING ITS PART TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF GENEALOGISTS AND SPECIFICALLY FORENSIC GENEALOGISTS
Christy Walton and I recently had the opportunity to present to Career Day in the local school district, where 30 Forensics students asked excellent questions about our work.
Will these future Crime Scene Investigators solve future big cases using a bit of what they learned from Dancestors?
The Forensic...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Apparently, in 1921, Americans who were primarily descendants of the Europeans were asserting their superiority over them. Remember that we recently came through World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic, and we're entering the roaring 20's.
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The above cartoon ran in 1901. Below are six of the many predictions from 1900 made for the next 100 years by John Elfreth Watkins. The first three came true; the next three did not.
1. Digital color photography- Watkins did not, of course, use the word "digital" or spell out precisely how digital cameras and computers would work. Still, he accurately predicted how people would come to use new photographic technology.
2. Television- "Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits,...
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The ad above was written in 1942. It only took 79 years to become famous or infamous depending upon your perspective.
Torturing candidates and office-holders with easy-to-chat taglines have been happening for a long time.
Grover Cleveland was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock. The crowds chanted at him: “Ma, ma, where’s my Pa?”. Cleveland went on to win his second term. He was the only president to marry in the White House, when in his first term at age 49, he married a 21-year old, who he had been a guardian of since she was an infant. That is...
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WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT EUGENICS IN MY JAMESTOWN VISIT
In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Racial Integrity Act. The Act reinforced racial segregation by prohibiting interracial marriage and classifying as "white" a person "who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian." The Act, an outgrowth of eugenist and scientific racist propaganda, was pushed by Walter Plecker, a white supremacist, and eugenist. He held the post of registrar of the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics.
The Racial Integrity Act required all birth certificates and marriage certificates in Virginia to include the person's race as either "white" or "colored."...
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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...
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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...
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Ancestry Explained
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...
