HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE - AN INTERESTING WAY TO LEARN AMERICAN HISTORY of PLAN YOUR LOCAL TOUR

HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE 

How many of us have toured our locale in order to learn the history of the place? 

Happened upon this site and was amazed at what I did not know.  Searchable and, if you know of a marker that should be included, you can suggest additions. So many structures have been built over but the markers noting them are there to discover.  And what I get is that in each case the marker had to be thought noteworthy. It had to be proposed, designed, determined, and paid for, as well as placed. Sometimes this was done because what had happened there was over or what had been built there was being taken down.

To quote the site, historical markers lead us to "public history cast in metal, carved on stone, or embedded in resin."

So, perhaps you are standing on an old burial ground, or the location of the school your great grandparents went to is marked - or still standing.

Worth exploring!

THE ANCESTRY OF PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON

A chart from the Library of Congress that includes the English Heraldry of the Washington family.  I'm always interested in the artistic notions that various family trees, records, and other documents reveal.  These historical renderings can inspire us to think about ways we can fashion our own ancestral charts.

DADDY'S DAY

 Honoring all those who provide love and nurturing to children.

COLONIAL AMERICA CENSUS WORK - LIMITS OF THE 1790 U.S. CENSUS : 13 ORIGINAL COLONIES and THEN SOME

The first census taken in what was the United States was taken in the year 1790 and its a statistical census. It features the names of heads of households, mostly men. There were less than four million people counted. Thomas Jefferson was then the Secretary of State, not yet President, and under his direction the census was taken not by census takers, but by the marshals of the various districts. The census was of the ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES that became STATES but also the districts of Kentucky, Southwest Territory (mostly what is now Tennessee), as well as Maine and Vermont. 

The 13 COLONIES WERE :  New Jersey (NJ), Maryland (MD), Virginia (VA) which included an expanse of what is now South West Pennsylvania*,  Rhode Island (RI), Connecticut (CT), New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA), North Carolina (NC) and South Carolina (SC) - the state was split in two in 1712, Georgia (GA),  New Hampshire (NH), Massachusetts (MA). We tend to think of the 13 original colonies as all in the North East, as New England, but as you see, three of the states were actually in the South.

* Were your ancestors Colonial's living south of Pittsburgh? Yohoghania County Virginia is the name of the County that was disputed between the state of Virginia and the state of Pennsylvania, also called the District of West Augusta. As land grants and legalities were in dispute, you may want to look at records from both states.

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FLAG DAY U.S.A.

 

This is the day to honor the emblem of the United States of America, the Flag, to fly it and learn to fold it.  Speaking of, it's been a while but in the past I've gotten some great information I needed from the genealogy database called Fold3.  The name Fold3 came from the folding of the flag into a three pointed triangle.  The site came upon the scene with military records.

NOT INTERESTED IN JOINING SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION or DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ? COLONIAL AMERICAN RESEARCH!

Although heredity societies such as DAR or SAR are not of interest to everyone, if you're doing research on your very early American roots in Colonial times, you may still want to see what information that DAR or SAR holds that may be applicable to your search. You may be surprised. Both have libraries of their own. Some of their membership and past applications can be found on certain databases. If you're starting to loose a trail. I would certainly look to see who may have applied for membership and the lineage they are reporting.

Talking to someone the other day about PEDIGREE COLLAPSE and how interrelated humans are, I suggested that DNA results would probably lead to an affirmation that a person is genetically linked to dozens of ancestors in a small town in Europe. 

Basically, as we go back in time there were less people on earth than there are now.  And people died younger. And remarried quickly. So while today there are blended families because of divorce, not so long ago the death of a spouse a - until the mid 1800's in Colonial America - common for people to marry a cousin. Not a first cousin but someone related. In Europe concerns and understandings about land ownership and inheritance also encouraged interrelated and local marriages. It was not until massive immigration, travel and transportation ease, and the move from country to cities that people started having an opportunity to meet people who would otherwise be strangers to them, and to choose their own partners, really mixing up that DNA.  So, be it a royal family or you and me, we are likely to discover that some of the same people appear on our charts in more than one of our lines. What might appear as a fan chart -that looks like an inverted pyramid may just collapse.

SAUDI-FATHERED CHILDREN ABANDONED IN AMERICA - ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIS FATHER

ABC NEWS SPECIAL : SAUDI CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND   Link to the YouTube video.

I'm linking to this video rather than embedding it because there is a commercial attached.  This is the story of one man, one of many children, whose pregnant mother was abandoned by his father, a college student in America at that time.  It focuses on the difficulty he has because of the fact that what his father did - having sex without marriage and with a woman not of his culture and religion - is a shameful thing among his own.  Certainly such men know what they are doing. So take responsibility already!

The man is able to connect with younger family members who do not have the same attitude, but his birth father shuns him, as he always did, even when he travels all the way to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabians are not the only college students who come for an American education and use the comparative liberalness of America and American women to experience sex and then abscond to their own far-away countries leaving women to raise the child without their support, without marriage. 

While not every foreign student is this way and the abandonment of women and children also happens by native-born men, the great numbers of people who approach me hoping to find a birth parent leads me to think seriously about this as an issue.

Recently I worked with a person who's mother - in her 80's - still wants to know who her mother's birth parents were. We got as far as learning that her adoptive parents died within a month of each other when this adopted girl was only 18 and using census, that they were born and raised in different states but managed to adopt when they were living in Chicago. Women were having their babies without fathers in Chicago at the turn of the century.  There is still hope.

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