Sharing ancestors, one person at a time. Genealogy and history.
Initially, I thought to recap on some of the histories that occurred concurrently during the lives of certain ancestors. I had done this in several posts when an ancestor only left their vital records behind, but nothing more. Usually, this was my ancestresses, as women's lives were rarely captured in other types of records. But … Continue reading Witness to History – 2020
We have all had accidents. But how many of us had our misfortunes recounted in the local newspapers? Could you just imagine the whole community knowing? Well, that’s not hard for the ancestors who were members of the community pillars. Several of them had their oops’ reported publicly. In 1893, Edward Coomer lost his thumb … Continue reading Oops – They happen to us all
Operation Torch Soon after the events at Pearl Harbor and the U.S. official entry into the war, military leaders had settled on the primary strategy of defeating Axis efforts in Europe before focusing on the Pacific threat. https://youtu.be/_hFXXbgtIZw So in July 1942, while Kenney trained off Main's coast with his new shipmates aboard the recently … Continue reading WW II letters home – Operation Torch (November 1942)
The topic for good deeds literally fell into my lap just this past week. I was experiencing mondo negativity through a myriad of varied and unrelated setbacks one after another all week. It seems the Universe was pretty mad at me. When I have weeks like this, I tend to shut down and turn to genealogy for distraction. Nothing … Continue reading Gratitude for her Good Deeds
Better late than never, right? Initially, ฉันต้องการเขียนเกี่ยวกับภาษาแม่ของฉัน ภาษาไทย. I mean, you can't get more different than between two completely different cultures that had little contact in ancient history and about zero common root words. Not to mention the script! But, I really don't know much more than I have already written about. So, let's go … Continue reading Different Language: The language of DNA
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