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IT'S NOT EASY TO BE HUGH!
While searching for ancestors, I discovered that HUGH V of Lusignan my 33rd Great Grandfather married Almodis (her tomb at right) who was born about 1020 and was famous for her marriage career. They married about 1038 and they divorced due to consanguinity (meaning that they were close cousins of some sort).
She later, with HUGH V's assistance, married Count Pons of Toulouse in 1040. Almodis was still Pons' wife in April 1053, when she was abducted by Count Ramon Berenguer I of Barcelona.
Ramon kidnapped her from Narbonne with the aid of a fleet sent north...
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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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THE GREAT EFFORTS TO MAKE ABE LINCOLN LOOK MORE PRESIDENTIAL
Included painting his head on another politician's posing. Ironically it was the fiery defender of slavery John Calhoun.
The secret was kept for a century!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abraham-lincoln-photos-edited
WE NOW HAVE THE LARGEST EVER HUMAN FAMILY TREE, WITH 231 MILLION ANCESTRAL LINEAGES
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-largest-ever-human-family-tree-using-two-decades-of-genomic-data
WE GET 50% OF OUR DNA FROM EACH OF OUR PARENTS. BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME 50% - UNLESS YOU ARE IDENTICAL TWINS.
Which is the most Irish of these four sisters?
https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/whos-more-irish-you-or-your-sibling/?ancid=o4v2vr11lh&gclid=baa080a6-a39c-11eb-aacc-008cfa5b6750-7f6d63729700++355896011++9188562039++32710796134&o_xid=75807&o_lid=75807&o_sch=Content+Marketing
THE USE OF DNA TO TRACK YOUR FAMILY’S DISEASE HISTORY BACK 280 YEARS!
How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America. The Bowlin family knew they...
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WITH RUSSIA POISED TO INVADE THE UKRAINE...
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I WAS ALWAYS CURIOUS ABOUT WHERE HER NAME CAME FROM, AND HOW DNA TELLS THE STORY
Caryn Elaine Johnson was born in Manhattan, New York City, on November 13, 1955, the daughter of Robert James Johnson Jr. , a Baptist clergyman, and Emma Harris, a nurse, and teacher. She was raised in the public housing project, Chelsea-Elliot Houses, in NYC.
She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got...
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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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OLD BONES FOR FERTILIZER?
In the 1700's Europe's fields were becoming exhausted.
The solution became to use the bones of dead soldiers amongst others to fertilize the fields.
Fortunately, a replacement fertilizer was found in the Chincha Islands off of Peru in the form of Guano, 150 feet deep.
In November 1802, Prussian geographer and explorer Alexander von Humboldt first encountered guano and began investigating its fertilizing properties at Callao in Peru, and his subsequent writings on this topic made the subject well known in Europe.
As many as 160 ships at a time were anchored off the islands while the "hard to recruit" guano...
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Memorial Day, initially referred to as Decoration Day, was observed by many communities after the Civil War, when the nation suffered more than 620,000 military deaths, roughly 2 percent of the total population at the time. John A. Logan, the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of Republic, chose May 30, 1868, to be the day to decorate the graves of Union troops across the nation. From this beginning, Memorial Day is now designated as an annual day of remembrance to honor all those who have died in service to the United States during peace and war. Veterans Day, November 11,...
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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...
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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."...
