THE BRITANNIC WAS THE LARGEST SHIP SUNK IN WORLD WAR I ; PHOTOS OF LIFE ABOARD THE HOSPITAL SHIP

DAILY MAIL PHOTOS ABOARD BRITANNIC SHIP SISTER OF TITANIC

Exciting history!

Excerpt: Nurses rushing across decks, crammed wards and steaming engine rooms have been captured in the images, offering a tantalising glimpse into conditions on board before the vessel sunk on 21 November 1916.

His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Britannic set sail in February 1914, but was requisitioned by the military before she could begin her first commercial voyage, and drafted into battling against Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
The vessel completed six voyages and transported thousands of wounded soldiers back to Southampton and Liverpool from the frontlines near Lemnos, Greece, before hitting a land mine in the aegean and disappearing beneath the waves in 55 minutes, two hours faster than the Titanic.

TWO MORE YEARS FROM TODAY'S DATE : THE 1950 CENSUS

STEVE MORSE and JOEL WEINTRAUB on the 1950 CENSUS - YOU WON'T FIND NAMES!

72 years of privacy for census was determined long ago when 72 years was one long life.  I sometimes wonder if this will be changed as our lifespans increase.

You can read the entire paper put out by these two gentlemen who have helped genealogists get through databases such as ship records and past census.

When the 1950 is first released you'll have to search page by page through Enumeration Districts until the massive undertaking of listing by name - indexing - happens.

The U.S. population after World War II was BOOMING (as in Baby Boomer) so while I have no doubt it eventually will be done, you may not want to wait another two to four years.

I remember when the 1940 came out.  I headed for my nearest Family History Center of the Latter Day Saints and I sat there for hours searching certain records in New Jersey... And what I proved weeks into it was that the first-generation immigrants and their children were no longer living where they had been in 1930, no longer in ethnic ghettos but out to the suburbs, even to other counties and states, some in old age homes.

I imagine the 1950 will show this movement into suburbs and other counties and states even more so. So many GI's got houses on the GI bill which afforded them small homes in the burbs!

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THE WOMEN WHO WERE WIDOWED WHEN THE TITANIC SANK

DAILY MAIL - ONE WRITER (JULIE COOK) TRACES HER OWN GRANDMOTHERS EXPERIENCE AS WINDOW OF TITANIC VICTIM

Excerpt :  All Emily could do was waite4 her turn to reach the front.  Emily Bessant, then 38, was my great grandmother.

In the grainy black and white photographs I've seen of her, she appears stern-faced: a cold, unemotional woman.

I don't know if she wept that day.  I;m an eternal optimist and, if that runs in my family, I imagine her more likely hoping against hope that William would, indeed, come home.

Sadly, he never did.  OF the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic, more than 1,500 died.

The not knowing must have been agonizing.  And a couple of weeks after the tragedy, Emily received a letter stating that William, 40, had been 'lost at sea.'

CHICANO RESEARCH CENTER - RICHARD SOTO'S QUEST - PERSONAL COLLECTION

KCRA - RICHARD SOTO's CHICANO RESEARCH CENTER
CHICANO RESEARCH CENTER : CONTACT INFORMATION

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I first read an article in the LA Times about this man and his library, but as I've gotten all the articles I can this month, I searched for Soto's information and came up with this other article.  This is a library dedicated to the history of Chicanos, however, I've often found that genealogy research and historical research are both essential, especially when you want to posit your ancestors in their special time and place.

A FAMILY TREE AROUND THE HOUSE

3000 YEARS OF FAKE GENEALOGIES - YES THE BIBLE INCLUDED

ATLAS OBSCURA ; 3000 YEARS OF FAKE GENEALOGIES  by George Pendle

The history of human's faking their genealogies to make themselves and their ancestors more illustrious than they really are/were - probably to hide some scandals - goes way back.  The Bible for instance.

EXCERPT :  The language of trees as been used to describe human bloodlines for millennia.  The ancient Romans called the scrolls that listed their genealogical history, stemmata ("garlands"). Similarly Rome's historians used the growth and fall of trees to mark the rise and fall of imperial dynasties. Tacitus wrote of Claudius's son Britannicus as being the "True and genuine stock: and of suffering a "too-green" death.  Pliny often used the arboreal terms "gracting," Splicing: and "pruning: to allude to the abortions, adulteries and child murder taking place around him.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AMSTERDAM - NOT JUST FOR "DUTCH" : JEWISH GENEALOGY post #2

Last month I posted about the National Archives of Amsterdam and said I would post more as I myself learned more about this site.  I mentioned that there are resources for those who are not "Dutch" including Jews - Dutch Sephardic Jews and Jews of the Holocaust including people who escaped to Holland may be represented.  Like many other databases that are offered by Country or Ethnic Group (Ukrainian, Irish, etc.) the data will continue to be loaded on and so checking back every so often is a good idea. There may also be spotty information due to the temporary or permanent loss of records. Still, we can be grateful for what is given as there is usually no charge, Google translate can help English-speakers quite a bit, and a person no longer has to afford to travel to go to an archive.

Today I want to mention some items within this on-line archives which are interesting!

POPULATION REGISTERS start at 1851 and are spotty. (civil)
BIRTH REGISTERS - both religious (baptismals) and others that are not (civil). These include Mennonites and Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews.
THERE MAY BE PHOTOS OF THE FAMILY included.

House numbers are NOT the same as today.

MARKET PERMITS or "Cards" say what it is your merchant ancestor was selling.  There are also PHOTOS included in this collection.  I suggest that if the market permit coincides with the history of the Holocaust you do some cross-checking with records elsewhere.

"UNDERLYING REGISTERS" important and searchable.

These include marriage bonds, contracts put out to the public (so if anyone objects, because they know someone is already married for instance, which is still done in some churches in their bulletins.) This ends in 1811 when Napoleon changed the laws.  Witnesses will be listed, as will it say if a person is divorced and to whom the bride or groom this time around was married to before! That is so valuable and unexpected.

A little more on this archive next month!

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