It's the OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC which many farmers relied upon when it came to weather predictions and planting times. And it was first published in 1793 when George Washington was the First President of the United States.
ALMANAC HISTORY
Excerpt: By definition, an almanac records and predicts astronomical events (the rising and setting of the Sun, for instance), tides, weather, and other phenomena with respect to time. The best known of all of almanacs ever produced is The Old Farmer’s Almanac, North America’s oldest, continuously published periodical.
Excerpt: Today, The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America, with a circulation of over 2.5 million copies throughout the United States and Canada. People still flock to the Almanac for its 80 percent accurate weather forecasts, which have evolved to incorporate state-of-the-art technology and modern scientific principles, in addition to Thomas’s original formulation.
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You may enrich your family history writing by looking at old Almanacs...
Some links : CLIMATE NCSU (How the Almanac Predicted Weather)
ONLINE BOOKS AT U OF PENN : Editions of the Old Farmers Almanac
17 October 2026
DNA OF ELIZABTH I "THE VIRGIN QUEEN" : NO SHE WAS NOT MALE and YES SHE BECAME VERY ILL
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14 October 2026
THE DNA OF RICHARD III SUGGESTS HIS MOTHER TOLD A LIE ... THE KING KNOWN FOR SCOLIOSIS
... and challenges who should have inherited the throne. We don't know what his mother experienced or knew or if her husband knew that Richard III was not his biological son. The skeleton was found under a parking lot ... His spinal deformation and his rich seafood diet helped convince the scientists this skeleton belonged to Richard III... So they decided to find useable DNA from bones over 500 years old... The genealogist sought a living descendant or his sister Anne of York and traced her female lineage - seventeen generations. On the paternal side though, living relatives were found and it was a mismatch! But it could have been that Richard III himself was not where the DNA lineage break occurred but went back a generation or so.
Excerpt from the station : a discovery that suggests a massive deception at the heart of the English monarchy.
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11 October 2026
COMING UP : MORE YOUTUBE VIDEO STATIONS WORTH WATCHING ABOUT DNA MYSTERIES AND CONTROVERSIES
I recently found some YouTube stations about the use of DNA to solve the mysteries of some English historical characters that that are truly interesting.
I understand that many YouTube station owners work hard to create their videos and hope that the hits will result in some financial benefit as a result. Fair enough. Because I'm recommending these stations, I do hope the creators will experience more hits!
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03 October 2026
WHAT'S NEW WITH THE "ELLIS ISLAND NEW YORK - STATUE OF LIBERTY ORG - DATABASE SITE ? IT'S NO LONGER JUST ABOUT ELLIS ISLAND! MORE U.S. PORT SHIP MANIFESTS TO BE INCLUDED!
In 2025 the old "Ellis Island" database site (which I stayed up in the middle of the night to access when it first was launched on the Internet - contributing to the site crashing!) underwent some wonderful improvements thanks to major financial input: one hundred million dollar renovation to turn the museum into a state of the art experience which doubled the size of the museum.
Very basically, it's no longer just an Ellis Island site! Records from other ports of entry into the United States are going to be added to that database, an ongoing project: The plans are to include these ports. Check on progress of the project...
Baltimore, Maryland
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Orleans, Louisiana
San Francisco, California
San Diego, California
Los Angeles (San Pedro), California
Charleston, South Carolina
Galveston, Texas
Ports in Florida
Hawaii,
Alaska,
Puerto Rico
Maybe more!
If you make it to New York City, you can go there with what you may know about your ancestor and a live person can help you use the database. "The Family History Center is located on the first floor of the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration."
STATUE OF LIBERTY ORG - THE "ELLIS ISLAND" SITE
HERITAGE STATUE OF LIBERTY - PASSENGER SEARCH (Click here to go directly to the passenger search database)
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25 September 2026
PLANETARY PHOTO FAMILY TREE
LOVE THIS CONCEPT!
This image is from THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Title : Planetary photographic family record / designed and executed by J.W. Zook, Oak Grove, Ills. ; Lith. of Kellogg & Bulkeley, Hartford, Conn.
Genre : Family trees--1860-1870 Lithographs--1860-1870
Call Number/Physical Location :PGA - Kellogg & Bulkeley--Planetary photographic (D size) [P&P]
22 September 2026
100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO by LOUIS HENRY GATES JR. : MORE EXCERPTS! LET'S KEEP LEARNING!
Chapter 22 : Did black people own slaves? If so, why?
Excerpt page 60 : One of the most vexing paradoxes in African-American history Is that free black people in the county bought and sold other black people starting at least in 1654 and continued to do so through the Civil War ..... Historians have been arguing for some time over whether free blacks purchased family members as slaves in order to protect them - motivated by benevolence and philanthropy.... or whether they purchased other black people primarily to exploit their free labor for profit, just as white slave owners did. ....
In 1830 about 13% (319,599) of the black population was free. Of these free Negroes, 3,776 owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the United States...
(Citing Historian Thomas J. Pressly....) About 1 percent of these black slave owners in 1830 owned between 20 and 84 slaves; 172 (about 4 percent) owned between 10 and 19 slaves; and 3, 550 (about 94 percent) each owned between 1 an 9 slaves. Crucially 42 percent owned just 1 slave.
Chapter 40 "Before Emancipation, didn't most free blacks live in the northern half of America?
Excerpt page 140: (Referencing a book published in 1974 called "Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South: by Ira Berlin)
In 1860, that raging year of Lincoln's reelection and southern secession, a total of 488,070 free blacks lived in the United States, about 10 percent of the Black population Of those 226, 152 lived in the North and 2651,918 in the South. (But Delaware and Maryland are considered the south)
A few months before the Confederacy was born, there were 35,766 more free black people living in the slave-owning South than the North. And they stayed there during the Civil War.
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NOTE : Manumissions are formal acts of emancipation by slave owners.
I'm always interested in learning more niche-specific history and these stats certainly challenged my understanding that far fewer blacks had the status of freemen so early.
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19 September 2026
100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO by LOUIS HENRY GATES JR. : ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BOOK REVIEW and EXCERPTS!
This book is based on a formerly published book as retold through the research of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famous Black historian and genealogist. There are a hundred profiles of famous Negro people and unfortunately for the original author and Gates, very very few were female.
What I find most valuable in the book is the information that may sway us to facing reality while researching family. I take an interest in ALL U.S. research (i.e. American History and Genealogy) and that, of course, includes the ancestry of present day Americans who consider themselves Black or think or know they have some Black ancestry. I'm also interested in busting myths because untruths often mean a lot of frustration and wasted time.
Some interesting excerpts:
Chapter 2 : How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade?
Excerpt page 9 : The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. While the editors are careful to say that all their figures are estimates, they are the proverbial gold standard in the study of the slave trade. According to the database, between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Some 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean, and South American.
How many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North American? Only about 388,000 ...
Chapter 13: Where was the first black town in what is now the United States?
Excerpt page 10 : In the late 1600's, Spanish Florida exercised a powerful draw on the collective imagination of slaves to the north in Carolina. It was their first Promised Land. At east since 1687, if slaves made it down to Florida and professed believe in "the True Faith " - Roman Catholicism - they were declared to be free. News of this haven spread through the slave grapevine.
Sometime between March and November 1738, Spanish settlers in Florida formed a town named Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, two miles to the north of St. Augustine... (It got to be called Fort Mose.)
Chapter 16 : Where was the first underground railroad? (Spanish American history here!)
Excerpt page 44 : After 1830 slaves in the southern states fled north to gain their freedom. (After previously fleeing south.)
Excerpt cage 45 : .... in 1693, the Spanish King, Charles II, attempting to systematically undermine the economy of the Carolinas, decreed that Florida would be a religious sanctuary for fugitive slaves seeking "the true faith."....(men and women slaves included).
Chapter 19 "How much African ancestry does the average African American have? (autosomal DNA tests)
Excerpt pages 52-53 : ... According to 23and Me.com the average African American is 73.2 percent sub-Saharan African 24 percent European, and only 0.8 percent Native American.
For African American males, still another astonishing fact ha been revealed about their paternal ancestry - their father's father's father's line through their Y-DNA: a whopping 35 percent of all African- American men descend from a white male ancestor who fathered a mulatto child sometime in the slavery era,...
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Lets go to the FORT MOSE HISTORICAL SITE!
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11 September 2026
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 9/11 TERROR ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY
THE FIGHTER PILOT SENT TO RAN INTO UNITED 93 Survivors' 9/11 stories
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My memory of this day: I liked to listen to KFI in the morning at the time and Bill Handel (who is still on the air at age 75.) Bill has/d a sense of humor that could be dry and sarcastic. He could even be rude and crude at times (but not as extreme as Howard Stern) such as the time he gave a blow by blow account of a man being executed in the electric chair. So when I heard him broadcasting about a plane hitting into the World Trade Center I wasn't sure I should believe him. Maybe it was just too much to believe.
Speaker 6 A plane crash into a New York landmark. I'm Ken Gallagher.
Smoke is pouring from the upper floors of the north
building of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
And then we have reports now that a second plane
has struck the other tower. We'll have confirmation on those
details just as soon as we can.
Speaker 1
It's fairly obvious now, Ken, that a second plane has,
in fact, struck the tower.
Speaker 4
You can see that now. We now have both buildings
on fire.
Speaker 1
And it's hard to say at this point, but that
cannot be an accident. And I think it's safe to
say that we've got a situation going on where we've
got a terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center. They're
looking at a lot of damage and probably a lot
of people being killed. Both airplanes are being reported as
hijacked by the FBI. If this is the case, we've got an extraordinary,
extraordinary criminal act going on.
Speaker 4
This is out of a movie. The airplane was aimed
for and was.
Speaker 1
Timed to do the maximum amount of damage and to
hurt and kill and maim the most number of people. ...
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I turned on the television and the second plane had hit and I knew it was. Of all people I called first, it was my apartment building manager. He didn't believe me. But within the hour a group of us tenants were standing outside in the parking lot together talking. We definitely thought our country was being attacked and suspected War would be declared.
(I believe war should always be called war and declared officially as is supposed to happen with the approval of Congress https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm )
We listened to Tony Blair, the Prime Minster of Great Britain's speech which was eloquent and forthright. I recall wishing our politicians could be like him. (According to Google AI, "Speaking from Downing Street just hours after the attacks, Blair expressed total solidarity with the United States, famously declaring that Britain stood "shoulder to shoulder" with the American people." I definitely thought he was pledging to the American people that if we went to war we could count on Great Britain to fight with us.
I was one of many who felt depressed and frightened.
Today I also think of all the people in this world who find themselves living with military violence in their country - in their town - and how traumatic that is - how it will effect the generations. It seems our exposure to violence has increased tremendously, even when watching a YouTube video that is interruptive and presents some drama, even an ad for a video game that I would rather not see...
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07 September 2026
LABOR DAY
This picture is attributed to Linnaea Mallette.
I wish I knew the origin of it.
Notice that child laborers are included.
Excerpt: Child Labor Defined: Historically, “child labor” is defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. However, not all work done by children should be classified as child labor. Children or adolescents’ participation in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their schooling is generally regarded as being something positive. This includes activities such as helping their parents around the home, assisting in a family business or earning pocket money outside school hours and during school holidays.
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