Today Is Black Friday:
Stay at home and do some genealogy!
Bad Merges in Family Tree:
AncestryInsider
I was affected again by a bad merge in FamilySearch Family Tree. Someone had merged a Tilford in Virginia with a Telford in Ireland to produce a monstrosity of a person with a gaggle of children. Mysteriously, this man bounced back and forth between Virginia and Ireland, using the Tilford spelling for all children born in Virginia and the Telford spelling for all kids born in Ireland. Hmmm. What an odd fellow.
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Family Photos: Why Do People Look Alike?
MyHeritage
"Although 60 years may separate two photos, the face is the same. The smile is the same. The ears, the eyes. Although two generations have passed, it’s as if the two photos captured the same person at different moments in time."
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Lost Letters: A Rare Glimpse into the Past
My HeritageBlog
"What if you could travel back to a specific time and place and get a real look at what life was like then? For 17th-century Europe, thousands of pieces of correspondence are now being unveiled, making time travel seem possible!"
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Lost Letters: A Rare Glimpse into the Past
My HeritageBlog
"What if you could travel back to a specific time and place and get a real look at what life was like then? For 17th-century Europe, thousands of pieces of correspondence are now being unveiled, making time travel seem possible!"
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Darned Federal Birth Certificates:
AncestryInsider
"We depend upon records to reveal the “truth” about the past. Yet sometimes records have anomalies. Some are amusing or humorous. Some are interesting or weird. Some are peculiar or suspicious. Some are infuriating, or downright laughable.
Records are the darnedest things!"
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I Thought Hearing From My Birth Mother Would Be Magical — And Then It Wasn’t:
MTV News
"You can Google "what to say, birth parent, first time, email" but let me save you the trouble -- you're not going to find any useful advice."
"In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, MTV News asked readers: What does adoption look like in 2015?"
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This Day In History: November 27
1095: In Clermont, France, Pope Urbana II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1826: Jebediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1887: U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1874 Birthday: Charles A. Beard, distinguished American historian who wrote History of the United States.
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