Give the gift of family history: MyHeritage Gift Membership Posted: 23 Nov 2020 06:29 AM PST
Just in time for the holidays, MyHeritage has announced the launch of the new MyHeritage gift membership! You can now give someone special the MyHeritage Complete plan, the best plan for family history research. To celebrate the launch, gift memberships are now available with a 50% introductory discount. You can choose to give either a 1-year or 6-month gift membership. Gift memberships are one-time and do not renew. The gift membership includes the following benefits of the Complete plan:
For more information see the following video and the linked blog post. Here is the link to the blog post: Introducing the MyHeritage Gift Membership Here is some additional important information from the blog post.
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Living in Spokane, I'd bet you have been to a house museum. Our own Campbell House. Wasn't it wonderful and didn't you feel the history?
The definition of a house museum is simple: it is a museum OF a house IN that house. Massachusetts leads the way with more house museums than any other state. Listening to a webinar from the Massachusetts Historical Society, house museums are layers and layers of history in one place, a place to see different people through the different lenses of time.
Want to taste and see and touch and feel a bit of history from a certain period in a certain place? Visit a house museum.
Most of the ghost towns in eastern Washington have long since completely disappeared but, for a few, a building or two still stands. This old school house was in the town of Govan, in Lincoln County, and is oft photographed today.
Ever heard of the town of Mock? Rodna? Chesaw? Molson? Peach? Mold? Of Govan?
Thing is, people settled these towns for a reason. They lived and died there. There is a Pinterest page for Washington Ghost Towns and it states: "Many Washington towns began with a boom and ended with a crash due to radical shifts of economy, access or natural disaster."
YOUR ancestors and MINE lived in this long-ago towns...... what do you know about them?
Think you'd want to share Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims in 1627? Very likely not because the menu was not what the artists have shown us all these years.
"As the day of the harvest festival approached, four men were sent out to shoot waterfowl, returning with enough to supply the company for a week. Massasoit was invited to attend and shortly arrived..... with ninety ravenous braves! The strain on the larder was somewhat eased when some of these went out and bagged five deer. For three days, the Pilgrims and their guests gorged themselves on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish, succulent eels, white bread, corn bread, leeks and watercress and other "sallet herbes" with wild plums and dried berries as dessert. All washed down with wine, made of the wild grape, both white and red, which the first Pilgrims praised as 'very sweet and strong.'"
There was no mention of "turkies, whose speed of foot in the woods constantly amazed the Pilgrims." There were cranberries by the bushel in neighboring bogs but the Pilgrims had not yet contrived a happy use for them. "Nor was the table graced with a later and more felicitious invention, pumpkin pie."
Q: If you choose to celebrate a "real" Thanksgiving, will you include "succulent eels" on your menu???
(Quoting from Saints and Strangers, by George F. Willison, 1945.)
