Some Serendipity Tuesday (rather than Friday) this week:
This is coming up on Saturday, April 18th: Click to www.rememberinggenerations.com for details.
Remembering Generations
Family History Symposium
4th Annual Family History Symposium-A Family Discovery Day
April 18th 2015 * 8:40 - 4:00
Why Wait..
Check out the class schedule.
and reserve your seats now for this great event.
Decisions, Decisions
25 classes this year to choose from. Beginner to advanced and everything in between.
The Remembering Generations FamilySearch Symposium-A Family Discovery Day, is a learning day where you will be shown how to use many of the top-notch genealogical resources, techniques and records available to you to find your ancestors and learn about their lives. The day will include a syllabus for each class offered and free lunch. Doors open for registration at 8am, a welcome at 8:40 and then various classes going from 9:15 am to 4:00 pm.
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My son, Benjamin, recently chided me: "You're NOT watching the ISS?" (International Space Station) So while he was here over Easter weekend, he showed me and WOW is this way cool. Sorry when I did the screen-shot-capture that it got both my screens, but the image on the right shows the path of the ISS and right now it's in the dark zone. When it's in daylight, there are THREE cameras beaming back photos of the earth. Now how cool is this?? And of course it's free. Google "HDEV" or type the entire website: www.eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ForFun/
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A widow had "discovered" genealogy and found it a great way to occupy some of her spare time in her retirement. She spent some money, but was judicious in what she spent and was not in any danger of frittering away her retirement. In fact, she stayed well within her genealogy budget.
Her son, thinking that his mother was spending too much time "looking for dead people," constantly berated her for it and criticized her for spending too much money.
She finally told him that since her genealogy work bothered him so much, she had decided to develop a new past time that might cost less. The local tavern had a weekly "ladies' night" and she was hopeful that she'd meet a man there would could be her son's stepfather.
He never complained about genealogy again.
Her son, thinking that his mother was spending too much time "looking for dead people," constantly berated her for it and criticized her for spending too much money.
She finally told him that since her genealogy work bothered him so much, she had decided to develop a new past time that might cost less. The local tavern had a weekly "ladies' night" and she was hopeful that she'd meet a man there would could be her son's stepfather.
He never complained about genealogy again.
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Interesting tidbit from THE WEEK (a new news magazine) 27 Feb 2015: "An Indian optometrist has given his elite clients a new way to flaunt their wealth: contact lenses that turn eyes a glimmering gold. Mumbai-based Dr. C.C. said he came up with the idea for the 24-karat eyewear, which sells for up to $18,000 a pair, after his wife had diamonds implanted in her teeth, making him realize that people were prepared to put bling on almost every part of their body. Dr. C. says that anyone who looks into a wearer's gold eyes will be "mesmerized." Will you be ordering a pair??
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Would a picture of the ship that carried your ancestors to America be something you would like to have? ShipIndex offers just that service. Do check it out.......... this was their 18 March newsletter.
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This was in a recent newsletter (Vita Brevis) from NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society). I think the talk will morph into a book. I think it would be fabulous reading!
Detail of The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. Dec. 22nd 1620, lithograph by Currier & Ives. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
I’m in the middle of doing some research for a lecture that I’ll be giving in April at NEHGS entitled “The Hand that Rocked the Cradle.” It will use an informal statistical sampling of the women who have been included in the Early New England Families Study Project so far to see if we can form any general pictures about these ladies and their families. Preliminary statistics are interesting.
The gross totals: 88 women who had 116 husbands, 608 children (an average of about 7 each) and 174 step-children. I think that is what they call “populating a wilderness!”
On average these women were born about 1620, came to New England about 1636 (about age 16), were married for the first time about 1640 (age 20), and lived to about 1682 (age 62). Those who had multiple marriages averaged age 41 for the second marriage (22 women), 46 for the third (4 women), and 42 for the fourth (1 woman).
The youngest at first marriage was 15, oldest at first marriage, 32. The woman who lived to the greatest age was 97, and the one who died the youngest was 21.
These women were wives, mostly, of the second generation Great Migration sons who came to New England with their parents, and, themselves, came to New England during the Great Migration with their own families, or as servants to extended family or to families who were often neighbors in their society or church at home.
An example of an “average” woman in this group is Elizabeth (Baker) (Watkins) Hudson. She was younger than average when she came to New England, only 3 when her parents Alexander and Elizabeth Baker came to Boston, but she married first to Thomas Watkins at about age 20 and had seven children before being widowed at age 57. She was 63 when she married her second husband, Francis Hudson (who was 77), as his second wife (his first having died the year before), and became step-mother to his four grown children. Elizabeth died two years later at age 65.
For me the most interesting statistic is the average birth year of these women, 1620. They were born, almost literally, as the Pilgrims were stepping on Plymouth Rock, and their entire childhoods would have been spent among families talking about, planning, and executing their removal from the old world to the new. They would have had no choice about coming to New England, but did they see it as a great adventure or were they sulking teenagers? I know that I would have been one of the sulking teenagers. I get seasick and I hate sleeping on any mattress but my own.
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Stevens County is just north of Spokane County. A local little Stevens County newspaper is "Huckleberry Press" because those delicious berries do grow in the mountains in Stevens County. Always included in this rag are "Fresh Chuckleberries..... warning! Not to be taken internally, literally, or seriously!" Here are some "chuckleberries" for you:
When we are not happy with others we are not happy with ourselves.
We have all heard that an apple a day keeps the doctor away but an onion a day will keep everyone away.
As humans we need some food, some sun, some work and someone.
The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The good ole' days are memories with the pain or embarrassment forgotten.
If the going starts to feel like it's too easy, you might be going down hill.
Money can buy a dob, but only love will make his tail wag.
Forbidden fruit makes for a very bad jam.
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