The Library of Congress has announced that it recently added 230,000 pages to its digital newspaper archives. The project includes some newspapers from 1860-1922, 22 states plus the District of Columbia. These newspaper pages can be searched, clipped, or downloaded to your computer.
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
The Journey Takers
I really enjoyed reading this book and thought I would pass it on.
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Leslie Albrecht Huber's ancestors were journey takers, leaving their homes in Germany, Sweden, and England behind to sail to the US and start new lives here. Huber sets out to trace these journeys and to understand her family - who they were and what mattered to them. As she follows in their footsteps, walking the paths they walked and looking over the land they farmed, she finds herself on a journey she hadn't expected. Based on thousands of hours of research, Huber recreates the immigration experience in a way that captures both its sweeping historical breadth and its intimately personal consequences.Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Tombstone Tuesday: Alfred & Katherine VanNess:
My sister Michele and her friend went to Cedar Grove cemetery to photograph The VanNess’s tombstones. There was only one headstone the rest were flat monuments with nothing on them. There were two other monuments; one stated Wife the other Husband. We know from Cedar Grove Cemetery tombstones inscriptions and interment that Alfred A VanNess is buried in section CAT-844-2A, his wife Katherine (Jones) is buried in section CAT-844-2C. Arthur VanNess (I believe to be their son) is buried in section CAT-844-3B, Harold VanNess (relationship not established) is buried in section CAT 844-2B and Lillian(VanNess) Quillian, Alfred and Katherine's daughter is buried in section CAT-844-3C.
The headstone looks like it was knocked out of place or maybe the ground in uneven it looks like someone tried to fix it?
The symbol on the headstone is hard to read. I looked up the VanNess family crest and this symbol does not look like it.
Does anyone have any idea what it might represent?
The headstone looks like it was knocked out of place or maybe the ground in uneven it looks like someone tried to fix it?
The symbol on the headstone is hard to read. I looked up the VanNess family crest and this symbol does not look like it.
Does anyone have any idea what it might represent?
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