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Busy Day in History
Apr. 12th, 2011 09:30 amSo as I understand it, this is the anniversary of the fateful day when President Franklin Roosevelt, with his last dying breath, ordered Yuri Gagarin to fire a Space Transportation System at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Maybe I need more coffee.
Ancestry.com has made a bunch of Civil War records available for online search, free for a week. Hope their servers are ready. My DH, who has never done genealogy research, asked me on his way out the door this morning to search for Blakes in New York. I asked for a full name. He said, "I don't know, maybe John." (This is where we pause to allow any genealogists reading this to roar with laughter; I love waiting through laugh pauses.) Well, needless to say, searching for a "John Blake" in New York City yields 19,000 hits. DH only recently learned, to his considerable annoyance, that at least one of his Irish ancestors arrived in NYC early enough for the draft riots. I have no sympathy, but the long list of Civil War misadventures from my family will wait for another post.
Hmm... we're in for a string of 150th anniversaries and I play mountain dulcimer. Better construct some garb for the 1860's. What's the easiest plan for a reasonably accurate working or middle-class day dress for the period?
It is my firm hope that, in future years, today will also be remembered as the anniversary of a space shuttle being awarded to the Adler Planetarium. C'mon, Endeavour, come on home to mama, that's a good baby. C'mon.
Ancestry.com has made a bunch of Civil War records available for online search, free for a week. Hope their servers are ready. My DH, who has never done genealogy research, asked me on his way out the door this morning to search for Blakes in New York. I asked for a full name. He said, "I don't know, maybe John." (This is where we pause to allow any genealogists reading this to roar with laughter; I love waiting through laugh pauses.) Well, needless to say, searching for a "John Blake" in New York City yields 19,000 hits. DH only recently learned, to his considerable annoyance, that at least one of his Irish ancestors arrived in NYC early enough for the draft riots. I have no sympathy, but the long list of Civil War misadventures from my family will wait for another post.
Hmm... we're in for a string of 150th anniversaries and I play mountain dulcimer. Better construct some garb for the 1860's. What's the easiest plan for a reasonably accurate working or middle-class day dress for the period?
It is my firm hope that, in future years, today will also be remembered as the anniversary of a space shuttle being awarded to the Adler Planetarium. C'mon, Endeavour, come on home to mama, that's a good baby. C'mon.
