EVIDENCE OF INHERITANCE ON CENSUS

Did one person in the family outclass the others?

There is sometimes evidence of this on the census.

Some things to consider:

If you have an adult sibling group, did the oldest son perhaps inherit from the Old Country where only the oldest son was a recognized heir? If so he may be living in a house while the others rent or be able to afford rent beyond his obvious income. What is his profession?

Is he perhaps a factory worker living next to a doctor or a bond salesman? If you can't really determine how much the real estate they live in was worth on the market that year or in that place and use a inflation calculator the kinds of work neighbors do can be telling!

You may want to research the general inheritance laws and/or practices in the ethnic country of origin. What went on in Germany did not always go on in Hungary, but Germans in Hungary might continue to practice the same rules of inheritance, as an example.

Is he living in an ethnic ghetto or near other family members.  Possibly the person who has more or earns more is the first to leave the ghetto for the suburbs.

Did a daughter "marry up?" In days past - and that includes the 1950 census - when most women became wives, housewives, and mothers, and were totally dependent on a husbands income, this may be evident in the profession of her husband as compared to that of her siblings.  Sometimes it is because a daughter had a father with an inheritance to provide a formal or informal dowry that she was able to marry up.  Another possibility is that college was afforded for the daughter and there she met a man who was educated or a professional as a husband.

You may  be able to find titles to land or actual wills and other legal documents that would show inheritance beyond a census.

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TITANIC SISTER SHIP BRITTANIC - SUNK IN WORLD WAR I - WRECK OPEN FOR DIVERS

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE - WRECK OF TITANIC SISTER SHIP BRITTANIC OPEN FOR DIVERS  an extensive article by Joe Pinkstone for Daily Mail Online...

Lots of good pictures. 

Excerpt: The vessel was made as part of the same project that created the Titanic and became a naval hospital ship for British forces in WWI.    It hit a sea mine in the Aegean off the coast of Greek Island Kea in 1916 and within an hour was at the bottom of the sea.  Thirty people on board were killed. ...

Notes:

Larger than the Titanic, after that sister-ship sunk the hull was redesigned.  it was never used for commercial transport. 

IRELAND - IRISH GENEALOGY OFFICIAL SITE : EXPLORE YOUR WEE BIT OF IRISH

IRISH GENEALOGY : IRELAND : DEPARTMENT OF GALLIC CULTURE  (Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht)

This site is being added to slowly and the focus currently is to adding to already existing records on the site such as Births, Marriages, and Deaths from the General Register (Civil records) office.  It also include church parish records. Some census. 

SR. JIM TUCKER REINCARNATION LECTURE

From 2014 - Poster notes audio will improve at about five minutes in. Dr. Jim B. Tucker (M.D.) is Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.  He's the person whose been continuing the work of Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia.  Both men have published interesting books.

CORONA VIRUS PANDEMICS - DEATH RECORDS - GENEALOGY

Do you think you could stay at home for two weeks - possibly be alone the entire time - and keep busy?

I think I could.

I need time to organize my household, go through my closets, ready things for donation.

I can imagine catching up on my reading, watching movies I haven't yet, trying recipes I've been meaning to make. Writing letters or calling old friends I haven't had contact with in a while.  And of course there's always genealogy research and family history writing to continue.

Maybe you're sequestering yourself at the moment, or just staying home and out of crowds more than usual, and maybe you're reading this blog - ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY Blogspot to occupy your time.

I've been thinking about the term PANDEMIC and how diseases effected whole populations.  Like maybe all of you, my ancestors/ family have died of:

Tuberculosis

Cholera

Typhus 

The flu - as recently as 1955 and 1963 (Seeing the death records reminds me that taking the flu shot is a good idea.)

And perhaps most frightening - Small Pox.  As I understand it, you could catch it and go through horrible symptoms such as so much vomiting that you became completely dehydrated, resulting in organ failure.  There were also hideous weeping sores that left survivors with scars. A husband could give it to his wife who was nursing a newborn and all three would be dead in days.  A  feminine survivor in, say, colonial Philadelphia, might use pink colored wax - that contained led - to fill in the scars and give herself a smooth complexion.

I've seen the epidemics or pandemics in church records especially, when whole rows of people, young and old,  related or not, have the same reason for death listed. One after another.

An epidemic becomes a PANDEMIC when it effects a whole country or the world.

Pandemics have weened some DNA from populations.  There's some evidence that those who were more resistant may have even had changes in their DNA that they could pass on.  For instance the Black Death required thousands of burials and in those days before modern sanitation every opportunity to catch it and yet some survived.

The Black Death did something else to Europe.  People discarded class considerations in order to re-partner as a matter of survival.

And as there was more superstition than science at that point, people did not understand the role of filth.

I'm sure you are all listening to the news, watching YouTube videos, reading newspapers and on-line articles with the latest on this Wuhan Coronavirus.  Mixed in there is some speculation, some fake news (in both suggesting there is no problem and suggesting it's totally out of control.)

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AMSTERDAM - NOT JUST FOR "DUTCH" : JEWISH GENEALOGY post #1

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AMSTERDAM - NOT JUST FOR "DUTCH"

Wow!  Though the headings such as "research,"  "archives," or "search" are in English, English speakers will need Google Translator to go further.  As part of an effort to share culture and European and Jewish history, the National Archives of Amsterdam has plentiful resources in which you may find family history and genealogy even if you are not "Dutch."

In particular, Portuguese Sephardic Jews who were expelled or left Portugal and settled in Amsterdam, Holland, where people were more tolerant of religious differences, are recorded here.  And - this is wonderful - I'm told there are entries in which the person's Jewish surname in Netherlands is listed as is the surname they used in Portugal. On the marriage records there can be information such as a previous spouse, a divorce, the names of these persons, and where they came from.  

I'll give more details later as I explore the site myself.

A word about European Jews.

In the United States we easily identify surnames that are or "sound" Jewish, as we are used to "German Jewish" surnames.  As a result Colonial American Jews (of which there were some) with surnames that are not clearly German Jewish are not so easily identified.  Some time ago I posted on a book called "When Scotland was Jewish" which is quite interesting - the surnames of some Jews are Scottish. In the Southern United States, pre-civil war, some of the slave owners were Sephardic Jewish.

Then there are Italian Jews; reading around DNA it's said that about 40% of Italians - particularly in the South of Italy - have some Jewish ancestry though they may have been practicing Catholics for generations.  The Italian Jews are usually from Sephardic origins. Some of them came from Salonika, Greece, where they first went after the expulsions. 

When we think Polish Jews, we think of German Jews  because some German Jews were living in Poland and visa versa, but Polish Jews had surnames that were Polish; surnames were not used, needed, or the law until rather late in Jewish history.  If you live in a small community where everyone knows everyone, why a surname?  Surname requirements get tied into registrations for civil reasons.  Besides the expelling of Jews (or forced conversions) from Spain and Portugal (and other countries) Jewish people could chose a surname (while also having their Jewish name). Then there are a variety of spellings used by the same family to consider. And that to this day some Jews have the name the world knows them by as well as a more secret name known to their fellow Jews.

Last but not least, some Jews in Poland and other areas effected by the Holocaust made their way to Holland - such as the famous Anne Frank - hoping they would be safe there - but eventually they were not.

So you realize that the NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AMSTERDAM can be useful for Jewish genealogy.  You may be able to cross reference your research with Vad Yasham and other Jewish Genealogy and Holocaust oriented sites.

More later!

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VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

From NC Pedia (North Carolina) 

this image of Freedmen (ex Slaves) voting in 1867

on New Orleans after the Civil War.

I hope if you have not yet, you will go out to vote.

In California you may now register the same day as you vote.

You may also vote though you are homeless.

So please, use your RIGHT TO VOTE, speak your mind 

with your vote, your vote counts.

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