INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY / COLUMBUS DAY

Officially now Indigenous Peoples Day * in the United States of America, not everyone is going to forget this was the day that Christopher Columbus was celebrated as the discoverer of America.  These days there's an awareness of possibilities that the land mass across the Atlantic was discovered or visited by other seafaring people as well. This morning as I did an internet search there were many posts such as "is the post office open on Columbus Day" as evidence of this.

If you use the search feature on this blog, or click on the tag below "Christopher Columbus" you will find other posts including a review of a documentary film I saw that was very convincing.  A film by the History Channel called WHO REALLY DISCOVERED AMERICA is quite interesting.

An article from SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE Smithsonian Magazine blog : Focus on Indigenous People and Conservation

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THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS : STEPHEN NISSENBAUM : ANCESTRY WORSHIP BOOK REVIEW

THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS by STEPHEN NISSENBAUM 

Stephen Nissenbaum takes wassailing, an English custom, to the early American colonies where Christmas was a day for reversing roles, and the gift giving was more like a Halloween trick or treat. Perhaps the idea was to let off resentment?

Christmas as we know it to be was invented by New Yorkers who leaned on a myth that the holiday was from the Dutch heritage of early residents of Dutch New York. In early new England the day was not celebrated because the festivities were not considered to be Christian behavior.

Perhaps no better a day of the year existed for slaves. A good portion of this book by Stephen Nissenbaum, a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, is devoted to the relations between slaves and their masters.

Genealogists will learn more about the Freedman Bureau too!

Maybe you'll want to read this one after the holidays?

Book is C 1996 by the author Stephen Nissenbaum and published by Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf.

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A THANKSGIVING FAMILY CELEBRATION : WHY NOT START A FAMILY COOK BOOK?

FAMILY RECIPES are a wonderful thing to include in a family genealogy book. Tasting foods your relations ate can bring you a little closer to understanding their lives. But I have a suggestion!



Maybe Thanksgiving dinner is the best time of all to bring up starting a family cook book. Everyone can bring a copy of the recipe that gets them the most compliments to share. START YOUR OWN FAMILY HERITAGE COOK BOOK!

In my family many recipes have died along with the cook. Every time I taste Stuffed Cabbage Rolls (Pigs in the Blanket) however wonderful they are, I keep hoping to taste the ones that my aunt used to make in a huge pressure cooker and bring to every family wedding, even when there was a caterer!

SUNDAY JUNE 21st 2009 IS FATHERS DAY - TODAY!

In genealogy we often find much more information - documents - for the males than the females, and the fathers more than the mothers. Reading through microfilms of Catholic Church records for small towns in Hungary, for instance, I found that baptismals (which usually closely followed births) did not always even mention the mother's name. When the surname is common, and the given names are repetitive, this represents a research block that can be impossible to get around. Jewish records for about the same time and place however not only gave the names of the parents but the midwife and the rabbi who circumcised the male child!

This emphasises the importance of keeping family records NOW for generations in the future!