I've copied these in the same size so all parts should fit. I would try to enlarge X2 or X3. Have fun!
20 June 2020
BUILD A LITTLE MODEL OF THE MAYFLOWER
Thanks to Dover Publications, here is the project. You'll probably want to enlarge before you cut out and you still might need some tweezers, but hey, this is at no cost to you! Celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims on the Mayflower and indulge yourself in some Colonial American history!
I've copied these in the same size so all parts should fit. I would try to enlarge X2 or X3. Have fun!
I've copied these in the same size so all parts should fit. I would try to enlarge X2 or X3. Have fun!
17 June 2020
400 YEARS AGO THE PILGRIMS LANDED IN AMERICA - THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY
MAYFLOWER SOCIETY and 400th ANNIVERSARY in 2020
A friend of mine got a message regarding a DNA test she'd taken a couple years ago. She hadn't checked her account in some time. A man wrote that she might be related to a passenger on the Mayflower as he is related to her and he tested that he's a descendent of one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, Richard Warren who was married to Elizabeth Walker.
Uncanny!
Preliminary reading on the Internet: this man and woman had the largest family and there may be thousands related to them at this point. Genealogical there is some controversy and revisions.
There will be celebrations and do so hope that these can go on since we are in a plague time.
Here's the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC on CELEBRATIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEANS
13 June 2020
WHAT's NEW WITH FAMILY SEARCH? FACIAL RECOGNITION
FamilySearch has come up with a new feature that I suggest you ignore, the invitation to upload not only the photos of your ancestors for the world to see, but photos of your own face. Of course this will be coordinated with your account and the research you're doing which is supposed to begin with you and your own family. Perhaps you would like to totally give away your privacy and that of those connected to you by also willingly linking your DNA results.
It looks like fun - a game - and is promoted as such - aren't we all warm and fuzzy? - but what really is happening here? You do know that the company owns the rights to your research and all else you post right? Read the fine print. It will become part of "Intellectual Preserve." Do they or will they sell your information. Currently they say they won't but in the future?
As intentions besides the research of and preservation of genealogy and family history research become more common, I see the dark side.
One of the many reasons people used to hire a genealogist was for the preservation of their privacy. Family History and genealogy books and charts a professional composed were just for family, people you knew, a few copies. Many published books eliminated the latest generation, so only if you could prove the links to those - deceased - listed - was it valuable to you.
Perhaps in some parts of the country people still leave their doors unlocked and welcome neighbors to come on in. There is absolutely no way for FamilySearch to know the reasons why certain criminally minded people - stalkers - Identity thieves - and rapists - and the all too common people who want to get to know you without you knowing it - use their databases. To be fair, no genealogy database offers privacy once you post, so I suggest you print out or save your research elsewhere, whatever you use.
Take it from someone who has been stalked by someone who had a fantasy that he was dating me, someone who went up to people he saw talking to me, claiming to be my "friend" and asking personal questions, including where I worked. Come now - when someone is your friend then you told them - not some gossip.
Or perhaps consider my neighbor down the street whose parents lost their entire life savings when they wired it to Mexico. The person who called them know their names, the name of their grand-son, where he went to college and that he was on break. They said he had gone to Mexico to a friend's wedding, mentioning a name that also sounded familiar to them, it had gotten too wild, and he was sitting in a prison, which was going to cost them legal fees, ruin his education, and his reputation. All lies. For $40,000 he could be let out. So they sent the money. Talking about this, it is likely the thieves used genealogy databases as part of their research about this elderly couple. They lived in fear when they learned the truth that the criminals would come to their house.
Think three times about uploading your photos and if someone else in your family does this without your permission, well, I'd dump them. That's totally disrespectful.
C 2020 Ancestry Worship Genealogy
It looks like fun - a game - and is promoted as such - aren't we all warm and fuzzy? - but what really is happening here? You do know that the company owns the rights to your research and all else you post right? Read the fine print. It will become part of "Intellectual Preserve." Do they or will they sell your information. Currently they say they won't but in the future?
As intentions besides the research of and preservation of genealogy and family history research become more common, I see the dark side.
One of the many reasons people used to hire a genealogist was for the preservation of their privacy. Family History and genealogy books and charts a professional composed were just for family, people you knew, a few copies. Many published books eliminated the latest generation, so only if you could prove the links to those - deceased - listed - was it valuable to you.
Perhaps in some parts of the country people still leave their doors unlocked and welcome neighbors to come on in. There is absolutely no way for FamilySearch to know the reasons why certain criminally minded people - stalkers - Identity thieves - and rapists - and the all too common people who want to get to know you without you knowing it - use their databases. To be fair, no genealogy database offers privacy once you post, so I suggest you print out or save your research elsewhere, whatever you use.
Take it from someone who has been stalked by someone who had a fantasy that he was dating me, someone who went up to people he saw talking to me, claiming to be my "friend" and asking personal questions, including where I worked. Come now - when someone is your friend then you told them - not some gossip.
Or perhaps consider my neighbor down the street whose parents lost their entire life savings when they wired it to Mexico. The person who called them know their names, the name of their grand-son, where he went to college and that he was on break. They said he had gone to Mexico to a friend's wedding, mentioning a name that also sounded familiar to them, it had gotten too wild, and he was sitting in a prison, which was going to cost them legal fees, ruin his education, and his reputation. All lies. For $40,000 he could be let out. So they sent the money. Talking about this, it is likely the thieves used genealogy databases as part of their research about this elderly couple. They lived in fear when they learned the truth that the criminals would come to their house.
Think three times about uploading your photos and if someone else in your family does this without your permission, well, I'd dump them. That's totally disrespectful.
C 2020 Ancestry Worship Genealogy
10 June 2020
HER DNA SUGGESTS RACE AND ETHNICITY - WAS IT MARRIAGE OR RAPE?
Question for Ancestry Worship - Genealogy BlogSpot
(Please note that this person showed me her results and asked me to interpret them.)
My genealogy research takes me back to Southern Poland and parts of what is now Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine. I know this was the Austrian Empire, but my ancestors always had their "ethnic I'm" as these ethnicities. I'm showing Asian ancestry on one side and Near Eastern ancestry on the other. Percentages would l be about one sixteenth of each - so that would be great great grandparents - right? Is this the end of my standard paper trail research? Please comment. Thanks.
G.
Answer from Ancestry Worship - Genealogy BlogSpot
Not necessarily.
First remember that all results are statistically based and dependent on all the people who have chosen to contribute their personal data to that particular company's resultsw and that stats are reworked based on an ever-growing number of considerations. Also, as more understanding of genetics and DNA comes forth, it can get more specific - such as what tribe (be that Native American or Native European - so to speak). Sometimes this information can lead us past a block.
One sixteenth could be a great great grandparents. We each have two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, and sixteen great-great grandparents. However, it could be some other combination such as four of the thirty two great great great grandparents. Or some small strain in many ancestors that adds up.
Today many people simply feel American or Canadian or British - or whatever - though only one of their lines show that. Other people relate to an ethnicity or way of life - including attitudes and lifestyle - that they may be criticized for adopting because there is no biological evidence for it. (This is one of the reasons I think sometimes that a past life experience is why.)
As for the paper trail - standard genealogy - it is always worth pursing even if it is at odds with the DNA or genetic results. However, the notions that genealogy will prove generations of marriages - chosen and happy marriages - or unite a fractured family are myths. People may have lives that were more controlled or regimented or limited than we have come to expect as Americans, but there were still affairs and there was rape. Rape is so common that I doubt there is anyone alive who doesn't have some DNA as a result of rape.
Some areas of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine, experienced invasions and occupations that included murder and rape. I suspect you will not likely find church or temple records going into the 19th or 18th century that reveal that. You might want to read about the Tatars, Mongols, and Ottoman Turks.
In my years as a genealogist, I've rarely found notations in records that expand on the explanation of illegitimacy, for instance. (Once in a while an understanding priest wrote in "father in America" or something about a death before marriage - alluding to a romance or plan to be married when the unfortunate happened.) It's so sad to me when I find a woman who has one child after another without a father and see how soon those children die. I always wonder if she was a woman repeatedly taken advantage of by men in the village - perhaps an orphan or someone born without average intelligence - someone who might have been forced into prostitution.
A W G
C 2020 Ancestry Worship - Genealogy Blogspot
(Please note that this person showed me her results and asked me to interpret them.)
My genealogy research takes me back to Southern Poland and parts of what is now Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine. I know this was the Austrian Empire, but my ancestors always had their "ethnic I'm" as these ethnicities. I'm showing Asian ancestry on one side and Near Eastern ancestry on the other. Percentages would l be about one sixteenth of each - so that would be great great grandparents - right? Is this the end of my standard paper trail research? Please comment. Thanks.
G.
Answer from Ancestry Worship - Genealogy BlogSpot
Not necessarily.
First remember that all results are statistically based and dependent on all the people who have chosen to contribute their personal data to that particular company's resultsw and that stats are reworked based on an ever-growing number of considerations. Also, as more understanding of genetics and DNA comes forth, it can get more specific - such as what tribe (be that Native American or Native European - so to speak). Sometimes this information can lead us past a block.
One sixteenth could be a great great grandparents. We each have two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, and sixteen great-great grandparents. However, it could be some other combination such as four of the thirty two great great great grandparents. Or some small strain in many ancestors that adds up.
Today many people simply feel American or Canadian or British - or whatever - though only one of their lines show that. Other people relate to an ethnicity or way of life - including attitudes and lifestyle - that they may be criticized for adopting because there is no biological evidence for it. (This is one of the reasons I think sometimes that a past life experience is why.)
As for the paper trail - standard genealogy - it is always worth pursing even if it is at odds with the DNA or genetic results. However, the notions that genealogy will prove generations of marriages - chosen and happy marriages - or unite a fractured family are myths. People may have lives that were more controlled or regimented or limited than we have come to expect as Americans, but there were still affairs and there was rape. Rape is so common that I doubt there is anyone alive who doesn't have some DNA as a result of rape.
Some areas of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine, experienced invasions and occupations that included murder and rape. I suspect you will not likely find church or temple records going into the 19th or 18th century that reveal that. You might want to read about the Tatars, Mongols, and Ottoman Turks.
In my years as a genealogist, I've rarely found notations in records that expand on the explanation of illegitimacy, for instance. (Once in a while an understanding priest wrote in "father in America" or something about a death before marriage - alluding to a romance or plan to be married when the unfortunate happened.) It's so sad to me when I find a woman who has one child after another without a father and see how soon those children die. I always wonder if she was a woman repeatedly taken advantage of by men in the village - perhaps an orphan or someone born without average intelligence - someone who might have been forced into prostitution.
A W G
C 2020 Ancestry Worship - Genealogy Blogspot
06 June 2020
GREEN BOOK GUIDES REVEALED PLACES WHERE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WERE WELCOME
New York Public Library provides the GREEN BOOKS. These were like local travel guides to help African-Americans find out where they were welcome when they traveled.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - GREEN BOOKS - AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
EXCERPT: From 1936 to 1966, Victor Green, a postal worker who worked in New Jersey but lived in Harlem, published the directories known today as the Green Book. (The Actual titles were variously" The Negro Motorist Green Book; The Negro Traveler's Green Book; the Travelers' Green Book.) These listed hotels, restaurants, beauty salons, night clubs, bars, gas stations, etc. where Black travelers would be welcome. In an age of sundown towns, segregation, and lynching, the Green Book became an indispensable tool for safe navigation.
A valuable aspect of African American History.
You may find that some of the locations appear on the 1940 census and have residents.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - GREEN BOOKS - AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
EXCERPT: From 1936 to 1966, Victor Green, a postal worker who worked in New Jersey but lived in Harlem, published the directories known today as the Green Book. (The Actual titles were variously" The Negro Motorist Green Book; The Negro Traveler's Green Book; the Travelers' Green Book.) These listed hotels, restaurants, beauty salons, night clubs, bars, gas stations, etc. where Black travelers would be welcome. In an age of sundown towns, segregation, and lynching, the Green Book became an indispensable tool for safe navigation.
A valuable aspect of African American History.
You may find that some of the locations appear on the 1940 census and have residents.
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