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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...
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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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AMERICANS HAVING HARD FEELINGS AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE UNPOPULAR HERITAGE IS NOT NEW
The article on the very top was recently shared on a historical forum. I was surprised to see my great grandfather as a signee. I suspect many of our ancestors had hard feelings against those who descended from countries we were fighting in wars.
DANCESTORS HAS SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS FOR THOSE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR ROOTS!
Digital records from the 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/digital-records-19th-century-give-black-families-glimpse-ancestry-rcna2060?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm
GRAVEYARD TREATS!
A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make...
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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...
