Genealogy and Family History Radio Show & Podcast
The Gettysburg Wax Museum has been around almost six decades. Now they’re auctioning off their wax presidents (full size) and first ladies (half size). Yes, they can be yours through an auction coming up on January 14, 2017 at the 1863 Inn of Gettysburg. Here’s their site and what some of these POTUS look like in wax.
It took tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world, including many from LDS (Mormon) church congregations, black churches, and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, to get this done. And what a database it is for those researching their African-American ancestors!
It’s not everyday that a small town postmaster receives letters addressed to people who died generations ago. But in this case, it happened. The letters had been sent from a Civil War soldier to his parents. Who mailed them and why? The mystery has been solved!
It’s one thing for a house to sit empty for over a century. It’s another for it to retain the furnishings and decor of 1890! Here’s the story of London’s Malplaquet House!
Emma Morano was born in Italy on November 29, 1899. Yes… 1899! She is believed to be the last person on earth born in the 19th century. How does one live to be this old? She’ll tell you!
The Wellcome Library of London is known for their collection of medical texts and medical history. Recently they digitized “Manuscript 3658,” which is titled Names of Witches in Scotland, 1658. This was at the peak of a witch scare which lasted about 100 years. Included are the names of all women and men accused of witchcraft between the years 1658 and 1662.
Scottish witches meet the devil in a church yard.
Here’s a rather rare and unique method for finding relatives: Travel to Slovenia and have a translator knock on doors and ask people if they’re related. Apparently… it works!
UMass Boston researchers and students have been working Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts for the past several years in hopes of identifying the area of the original Pilgrim settlement. Their self-imposed deadline was 2020, the 400th anniversary. They made it with four years to spare!
Hundreds of years of tradition and storytelling may forever prevent this story from taking the place of what most American’s accept… that the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving was the first of its kind in North America. Virginia is staking its claim to the title, but is anyone listening?
It’s well known that many “Sons of Liberty” meetings in Boston took place in taverns, and that presidents enjoy imbibing once in a while. Here’s a fascinating story on booze, presidents, and the founding of the United States.
