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I’ve been watching the NBC series Who Do You Think You Are? with great interest. I find the series quite interesting. I don’t care that the person whose ancestry is featured each week is a celebrity. I realize that the celebrity connections create interest and ratings and I don’t have a problem with that. I’d [...] I just finished reading Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. I found it to be a very interesting read both from a historical and a genealogical point of view. he tells a 55-year epic of the Pilgrims from the crossing of the Mayflower in 1620 through King Philip’s War in 1676. He tells the real story — [...] If you could jump in a time machine and travel back to any point in history, where would you go? There are so many times and places I’d like to travel to. To be able to travel back in time to meet and talk to, or at least observe, my ancestors would be a genealogiest’s dream [...] On Thanksgiving Day, I always take a few moment to reflect on the lives of a group of people who endured persecution in their homeland, lived in exile, made an arduous journey across the North Atlantic, and settled in a hostile foreign land where they endured great hardship. I’m particularly thankful that eight in that [...] What we commonly refer to as the first Thanksgiving was actually a Harvest Home festival, which was as much partying as the Puritans were willing to allow. They didn’t even celebrate Christmas because they felt it was too pagan. To the Pilgrims, a Thanksgiving Day was a day in church thanking God for His blessings. I’ve [...] Arlo Guthrie — Alice’s Restaurant Massacree Today’s Quote: “Life is uncertain – eat dessert first.” — unknown T’m thankful that I don’t feel quite as bad as I did yesterday. I can count eight passengers who made the voyage on the Mayflower as ancestors – Francis Cooke, John Tilley, Joan (Hurst) (Rogers) Tilley, Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Isaac [...] “Weird Al” Yankovic – White and Nerdy Today’s Quote: “I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours.” — Pat Paulsen Yesterday while driving through Fairborn, I saw a business whose sign caught my attention — B&D Auto Sales. “We’ll sell you a car even if we have to tie and gag you.” Whips and chains are standard [...] Santana – Evil Ways Today’s Quote: “All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.” — Pat Paulsen I’ve been seeing trailers on TV for the Robin Williams movie Man of the Year, which asks the question, “What if a comedian [...] Buffalo Springfield – Mr. Soul Today’s Quote: “Vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.” — Ted Orland, Art & Fear Well, the web site update is done. It’s getting huge. The folder for the site takes up 75MB on my hard drive. One sub-folder has [...] Alice Cooper – Be My Lover Today’s Quote: “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” — Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist There were only seven prisoners in the Bastille when the peasants stormed it on July 14, 1789. They were actually after [...] |
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