Interesting news from 1860 – Little girl in Iowa is swept up into a cherry tree by a gust of wind. – Cock fight by Sec of War and VP of USA. ========================================== Boston Evening Transcript – Jun 6, 1860 Link to page in newspaper: ————————– http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rik0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=KeEIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1207%2C3472966
Tag: Boston Evening Transcript
Westport Landing
Small items in old newspapers can often give you important information for your genealogy work. For instance this 1901 Boston Evening Transcript item: Family records from Missouri may have birth or death place as Westport Landing and if you don’t know your history you would not know that this was the early Kansas… Continue reading Westport Landing
Pilgrims and Thanksgiving II
I can now report another successful pilgrim connection. I’ve connected Ames Elijah Alden to John and Priscilla Alden; 1997 to 1599. The Back Story: While working on the David Alden Family tree I looked for other Alden’s in the Google News Archives and found in The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 31, 1936 the Obit for… Continue reading Pilgrims and Thanksgiving II
Pilgrims and Thanksgiving
The genealogy Gods struck again thanks to the 1893 Boston Evening Transcript newspaper and Sherry. In a previous blog posting “Break the Pope’s Neck” I wrote about the interesting information one could find in the old newspaper “Boston Evening Transcript” and gave you a link to a history of it [Access The Boston Transcript] In… Continue reading Pilgrims and Thanksgiving
Break the Pope’s Neck
I was working on an 1895 Boston newspaper (Boston Evening Transcript) where there was an ongoing column used for public questions and answers; “The Message Board of the 1890’s”. There is a very good history of the column in: Access The Boston Transcript One of the questions (queries) concerned the game “Break the Pope’s Neck”.… Continue reading Break the Pope’s Neck
