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Tonight’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are was great! The tone of this episode was drastically different than last week’s show. Here are my initial thoughts of the show, in no particular order: The focus of this episode was entirely on one part of American history. While it was interesting how Sarah Jessica Parkier’s [...] Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days. She left behind 28 decendents. My condolences go to the family. Read More… This got me thinking. I wonder what notable inventions happened during her lifetime. Mary has seen [...] I just finished watching the first episode of the NBC series Who Do You Think You Are? Having recently watched the PBS Series Faces Of America, my initial reaction was very positive. I thought Faces of America was a little disjointed and scattered. It was hard to follow the stories when they jumped back and [...] You may have noticed that my posting has been sparse this last week. This is because I have been working on a tool that assists in conducting a relatively exhaustive search for your ancestors. I took inspiration from the wonderful spreadsheets released by Gary Minder’s CensusTools, one of which was the research log. It listed [...] St. Johannes Cemetery is in the way of expansion plans at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. (Chicago Tribune photo by Chuck Berman / July 2, 2009) In what will likely involve some lengthy court battles, a cemetery in Bensenville, Illinois has been condemned to make room for the expansion of O’Hare International Airport. St. Johannes Cemetery, owned [...]
"Inuk" – the ancient man of Siberian ancestry found in Greenland Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have sequenced the DNA from a sample of hair found frozen on the Western Coast of Greenland. They determined that the hair came from a man of Siberian descent. This shed some new light on some of the [...] There’s good news for folks researching their Hungarian roots. A new website has been launched by Nick over at Nick Gombsh’s Genealogy Blog. The site is called Hungary Exchange, and there are some interesting feature on the site like the Hungarian Marriage project, a Hungarian genealogy forum and a surname database, which will help you [...] According to a press release, President Obama and the man who campaigned as the 41st vote against Obama’s health care bill, Scott Brown are related. Here’s an except from the press release: Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown’s mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass, who died in 1687 at [...] |
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