The Greatest Gift - Memorial Day Preparations

This Memorial Day Weekend 

take a moment to keep our soldiers in your thoughts and prayers.

 Flags are place before each grave in preparation for Memorial Day, during the annual "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, May 24, 2012.

Photo: Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press / AP

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Donate Now

http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

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Wordless Wednesday: William Kidd

On this Date in History in 1701, William Kidd, Scottish sailor, was hanged for piracy at London's Execution Dock.

William Kidd

Interesting Genealogy Notes regarding Captain Kidd

Matrilineal Monday: Six Generations of Daughters – From Baby to 111-Year-Old Great, Great, Great Grandmother

Six Generations of Daughters – From Baby to 111-Year-Old Great, Great, Great Grandmother:

A Virginia family will have a lot of moms to fuss over this Mother’s Day. The family has an astonishing six generations of daughters still living.  The matriarch of the family, Mollie Wood, was born in 1901 and just marked her 111th birthday.

 (Image Credit: Courtesy Christian DeBaun)

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Friday Funny: Making time for Genealogy

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The 1860 Baptism record of Louis Adolphe St.Jean

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This April 2 1860, we undersigned priest baptized Louis Adolphe, born this same day from the ligitimate marriage of Narcisse St-Jean, blacksmith, and of Marie-Louise Trudeau from this parrish. Godfather was Jean-Baptiste Marion, godmother Alice Simard, both undersigning with us. 

(signed): Narcisse Simard, Jbte Marion, Alix Marion, Lj. Thibault, priest

Happy Mother's Day!

Celebrating mothers everywhere.

'Happy Mother's Day' from Tangled Trees.

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The London Gazette

A Treasure Trove of Historical Information

        

Britain’s oldest continuously-published newspaper has recorded significant political events, the everyday working of government, and, to some extent, the lives of ordinary everyday people since the plague of 1665 drove King Charles II from London. 
  

 The London Gazette is available online for free and the majority is key word searchable.


By the early eighteenth Century the Admiralty and War Office published despatches in the Gazette and submitted details of the appointments and promotions of their officers, a process known as “being gazetted”.  

    

In 1712 an “Act to Relieve Insolvent Debtors” required publication of insolvency announcements.

The Gazette continued to grow, the railway building boom of 1845, legislation on Patents and Company Law in the 1850s and 1860s, and from 1870 notice of civil service recruitment and examinations contributed to the publication. Civil service notices continued through the first half of the twentieth century and included bodies such as the post office.

Below I found a reference to our Cassingham relative:

(THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 26, 1895)

In 1899 a Naturalization Act resulted in the publication of lists of those granted British citizenship and in 1925 the Trustee Act picked up pre-existing practice by specifying certain legal privileges for executors giving notice of deceased’s estates in the Gazette. Notices of this type provide family historians with a rich trail of information.

For more information about the London Gazette visit us at www.london-gazette.co.uk/about, a special search facility is available for beginners at www.london-gazette.co.uk/search/steps/1 or use advanced search www.london-gazette.co.uk/search.

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1918 Palmolive Soap Ad

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This was well before Madge appeared on the scene.

'You're soaking in it.'

 Jan Miner (1917-2004) played "Madge" from 1966 to 1992.
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Mappy Monday: 1812 Essex County MA Electoral Districts

"Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republicanparty candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists,  from which the term gerrymander is derived. The cartoon depicts the bizarre shape of a district in Essex County as a dragon."

 Source: wikipedia

Sentimental Sunday: Katherine (Kollain) Kolbush

Grandmother Katherine (Kollain) Kolbush
b. 18 Sept 1910 in New York City, to newly arrived immigrants Ignatz & Maria Kollain.  No birth record was filed.
Married Alexander Kolbush on 24 June 1928, in Jamesburg, NJ.

Katherine Kolbush

Sept 1947

Died 1 Nov. 1994

The Nation's Martyr

Death of President Lincoln:

At Washington, D.C. April 15th 1865. The Nation's Martyr

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19484;  LC-USZ62-43633 (b&w film copy neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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Unknown, unknown...

This death certificate for
Joseph Lefebvre of Lowell, Massachusetts,
located on americanancestors.org is not much help....

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