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19 Apr

Posted at 21:02h in Newsletter

FAMILY HISTORY- THE INTER-CONTINENTAL TRAIN FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK WILL FINALLY PUT FORT NELSON ON THE MAP! Snowpiercer is a fictional train, its 1,001 cars carrying humanity’s last survivors as it endlessly loops a frozen Earth. Shown on this map, the InterContinental Railway (ICR for short) doesn’t quite go all the way around — but then again, it isn’t entirely as fictional. The Snowpiercer movie and series were based on Le Transperceneige, a French graphic novel from 1982. On the other hand, the ICR is being proposed by engineers and entrepreneurs who believe it can and should become a reality. You can...

05 Apr

Posted at 21:16h in Newsletter

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...

22 Mar

Posted at 20:50h in Newsletter

Genealogist --HOW EARLY MODERN EUROPEANS VIEWED PREGNANCY AND THE WOMB-- Genealogist When the womb began to appear in printed images during the 16th century, it was understood through analogy: a garden, uroscopy flask, or microcosm of the universe. Rebecca Whiteley explores early modern birth figures, which picture the foetus in utero, and discovers an iconic form imbued with multiple kinds of knowledge: from midwifery know-how to alchemical secrets, astrological systems to new anatomical findings. Read more Genealogist stuff here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pregnancy-in-early-modern-europe?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email Genealogist --ANOTHER WEALTHY IN PERSON YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT-- Genealogist Stephen Girard (May 20, 1750 – December 26, 1831; born Étienne Girard) was a...

08 Mar

Posted at 21:40h in Newsletter

GEORGE WASHINGTON AND OTHER ANCESTORS HEAD TO OUTER SPACE Buckle up dead American presidents, you’re going to space whether you like it or not. The DNA of four past US presidents will be blasted into deep space as part of a symbolic space burial flight alongside a number of high-flying names, who will all have part of their remains placed in special capsules and sent into solar orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket. The gesture will be carried out by burial company Celestis, which specializes in sending DNA into deep space to join part of a future human colony, as...

22 Feb

Posted at 20:05h in Newsletter

HERITAGE THE ARTICLE ABOVE SOUNDS LIKE A TESLA AD If only Elon had hired Harry's wife! However, that's an ad for 1926 Jewett-Six. The Jewett was an automobile built in Detroit, Michigan by the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company from March 1922 through December 1926. The Jewett was named after Harry M. Jewett, president of Paige-Detroit. Embedded in the dashboard of every Jewett was an amulet, visible on the passenger side as a dash-plate. Harry's wife Mary was something of a spiritualist, and these amulets were purported to have mystical power that protected the occupants. HERITAGE HERITAGE BARBARA RAE VENTER AT 74 IS A ROCK STAR...

09 Feb

Posted at 11:57h in Newsletter

GENEALOGY WE HAD A TEN PERSON SUPREME COURT Genealogy When Lincoln became president in 1861, seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union, yet half of the Supreme Court justices were Southerners, including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland. One other Southern member had died in 1860, without replacement. All were Democratic appointees. The Court was “the last stronghold of Southern power,” according to one Northern editor. Five sitting justices were among the court’s 7-2 majority in the racist 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling, in which Taney wrote that Black people were “so far inferior that they had no...

27 Jan

Posted at 14:17h in Newsletter

ROOTS- TWO LEAVES AND A LIE Ancestry.com has a new game show on You Tube (link below) In the first episode Sarah Hyland, better known as Haley Dunphy in Modern Family and her husband Wells Adams, better known as a contender on The Bachelorette try to best the other on fictional family history like the Dunphy's extended family, and their real families. In the scene above, Wells is stumped when he thinks his ancestor fought in the Civil War, but it was in the Revolutionary War., so he could join the Sons of the American Revolution. Dancestors helps people complete the documentation and...

12 Jan

Posted at 12:23h in Newsletter

ANCESTRY NATURAL GAS DOES NOT STINK COMING OUT OF THE GROUND. WHY DOES IT STINK? Natural gas stinks because Mercaptan is added to the gas. It is a colorless gas with a distinctively putrid smell. It is a natural substance found in the blood, brain, and feces of animals (including humans) and plant tissues. It also occurs naturally in certain foods, such as nuts and cheese. It is one of the chemical compounds responsible for bad breath and the smell of flatus. The reason why is in the headline below. The New London, TX school was heated with odorless natural gas in...

29 Dec

Posted at 17:12h in Newsletter

FAMILY SANTA COMES DOWN THE CHIMNEY ON NEW YEAR'S EVE? You can see in the pictures above that in the 1800's Santa was not commonly portrayed as a plump jolly guy. The guy in the article on top has a pipe, but no beard. Possibly the four Santa Claus' above us were retired Civil War generals? You can see the old articles about New Year's Eve as being when cookies were laid out and Santa went down the chimney on New Year's Eve. Apparently, in other nations, but also America that used to be quite common. Find more information at the link...

15 Dec

Posted at 12:53h in Newsletter

ANCESTORS- HENRY LOWRY THE ROBIN HOOD OF ROBESON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The Confederate government used conscription to force many locals to work on the construction of various forts around the Cape Fear River area for very little pay. Several Lowry cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color, had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher. The Lowry Gang was initially started to aid those hiding from conscription. Other residents resorted to "lying out" (hiding in the region's swamps) to avoid being rounded up by the Confederate Home Guard and forced to work for low wages. As...

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