I recently opened up my genealogy records and snooped around the information that my mother and I had gathered more than a decade ago. And, I started looking around on the web for additional information and media to pad out our combined records. Just the other day Evergreen podcasts recently re-posted an interview that Col. Logan Weston gave on Warriors in Their Own Words. Col. Logan Weston is my great-uncle, served in the special ops force Merrill’s Marauders during WWII, and wrote about his experiences in his book The Fightin’ Preacher. I am terribly proud of my grandmother’s brother and enjoy hearing stories about him and his service to our country. I hope y’all will enjoy the listen as well.
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Mapping a name
You ever spend a really long time just to get a visual, or organize a huge amount of information for your own personal digestion? And then you do nothing with it. Well, welcome to mine.
In the course of doing some genealogical research I started to wonder where my name-sake got her name, and then to also wonder about the popularity and the spread of the name LeEtta. And so I poured through the census and made a map of LeEtta movement from the 1860 census to the 1940 census in 40 year increments. It looks like we’re taking over the world, but really there are only 249 of 132 million people in 1940. That’s like one in half a million. 🙂
A Colonial goldmine | Harvard Gazette
Historians and archivists know a secret that most of us do not: that vast stores of primary documents about North America’s Colonial era lie untouched and unseen in repositories throughout the United States and Canada.
Psst, I wanna tell you a secret. My mother got me hooked on genealogy…well, it’s kind of an off again on again relationship, but when it’s on, it is so ON! The best stuff I ever found were the biographical snippets of people from town dairies, and if there is more than that in colonial record keeping I am looking forward to it. Apparently, these materials will finally be digitized and collected in one place to search: A Colonial goldmine | Harvard Gazette.
Even if you don’t like the family searching, it’s fascinating to learn about history through individual accounts.