How to Enable the Undo Button in Gmail (and Unsend that Embarrassing Email)
How-To-Geek
"There isn’t one of us who hasn’t sent an email we wish we could take back (if even just to proofread it one more time). Now with Gmail you can."
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Genealogy: World War II 1941-1945, Researching and finding military records:
Barry J. Ewell
"I have made it a practice to search World War II records for males and females that I have found in the 1920-1940 U.S. Federal censuses that were between the ages of 16 to 60 years of age between 1941-1945.There is a good chance they served or registered for service in WW II. With the online availability of records, searching for military records should be part of your research process for males who were born between the years of 1891 and 1927."
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Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963:
Ancestry.com
"Pennsylvania’s Department of Health began keeping birth and death records on a statewide basis on January 1, 1906. This collection includes death records beginning on that date through 1963."
This collection was recently updated again with additional records.
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New York Butcher Is Named as Real Live Uncle Sam:
New York Times
"In parades across the country on Saturday, lanky men on stilts sporting red and white striped pants, star-spangled top hats and gray goatees will pretend to be Uncle Sam. In Conway, Ark., James Black would perform that role after he retired as a cattle hauler and bus driver until he died in 2009 at 76.
But nobody there ever asked Helen Hauptmann Painter’s two sons to play the part of America’s folkloric icon. Which was an oversight,"
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This Day In History:
1971: Satchmo dies: Louis Daniel Armstrong, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, dies in New York City at the age of 69. He was born in 1901 in New Orleans.
1885: Louis Pasteur gives the first successful anti-rabies innoculation.
1775: Congress issues a “Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms”
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