Miscellaneous Links - July 9, 2009

This was sent to the Candyman Genealogy List on July 3, 2009

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Candyman/

I try to send in ten links per day. You have to be a member to
see the posts, but you can go no-mail and still fish through the
archives.

Linda Bee

Search Engine
Wolfram|Alphares://C:\WINNT\system32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm#http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/12/future.search.engine/index.html


New services promise online life after death - CNN.com
http://www.legacylocker.com/


Unclaimed property
Indiana Unclaimed - Search
https://www.indianaunclaimed.com/apps/ag/ucp/index.html


Date Duration Calculator: Days between two dates
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html


Place names - then and now
Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home
http://www.acadian-home.org/places-yesterday-today.html


Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html


Locations of English Unitarian records
Unitarian Historical Society
http://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk/hsrecords.html


Szathmary Recipe Pamphlet Digital Collection
Szathmary Recipe Pamphlet Digital Collection - The University of Iowa Libraries
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/szathmary/


Note: In Russian using the Cyrillic alphabet
A Dictionary of Russian Idioms and Colloquialisms;
2,200 Expressions With Examples
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pittpress;cc=pittpress;q1=Russia%20and%20Eastern%20Europe;rgn=works;rgn1=topic;view=toc;idno=31735057893756

Tiny URL = http://tinyurl.com/n8p5q7


Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html


St. Charles County, Missouri
PhotoGallery
http://www.win.org/library/other/historical_society/photogallery.htm


YouTube - Funny Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry comedy sketch! 'Your name, sir?' - BBC comedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ


Hear Names: Learn How to Pronounce Names Correctly - Home
http://www.howtosaythatname.com/


Arlington National Cemetery - Interactive Map - National Geographic Magazine Online
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/06/arlington-cemetery/arlington-map-interactive


Scoopler: Real-time search (Beta)
http://www.scoopler.com/


Cooking In Kansas: KS Recipes, Cookbooks, Pioneer, Cowboy Cooking, BBQ, Hamburger History, Bill Bunyan's Favorite Kansas Burg..
http://www.kansasheritage.org/cooking/


Various links (not just for Kansas)
Kansas Heritage Group | Established 1993 | Kansas (KS) History, Old West KS, Cities, Museums, Art, Racing, Cowboy Cooking, La..
http://www.kansasheritage.org/


Netherlands and United Kingdom WWII War Babies
War Babes - Bevrijdingskinderen WW11
http://www.liberationchildren.org/



Maryland photographs - Civil War
MHS - Z24 Image - Civil War
http://www.mdhs.org/library/Z24CivilWar.html

Maryland photographs - portraits
MHS - Z24 Images - Portraits, Part 1
http://www.mdhs.org/library/Z24Port1.html

MHS - Z24 Images - Portraits, Part 2
http://www.mdhs.org/library/Z24Port2.html

MHS - Z24 Images - Portraits, Part 3
http://www.mdhs.org/library/Z24Port3.html

Maryland - Index to all photos
MHS - Z24 Images - Index
http://www.mdhs.org/library/Z24Index.html

More Maryland photos
Maryland in Focus
http://www.mdhs.org/library/MDFcontents.html



Time - Current time around the World and standard time zones map of the world- 12 format
http://www.worldtimezone.com/


Nice. Will give you closest airport to a town along with
driving distance.
Convert Units - Measurement Unit Conversion
http://www.convertunits.com/



The below articles are from Rick Brown, proprietor of
the History Buff Newsletter and Website.

Historybuff.com - June 2009 Newsletter/E-Zine
http://www.historybuff.com/newsletter/june-9.html

Does History Repeat Itself?

I have researched and written over 200 articles about press
coverage of major events in American history. I am listed as
a resource in a few directories. When a major event happens,
I often receive phone calls from reporters wanting to know if
anything similar had happened in the past.

One example is the Bush presidential voting fiasco in 2000,
I received several phone calls from reporters wanting to know
if anything like this had happened before. As a matter of fact,
it has happened SIX times before. Many Americans know
about the Dewey Defeats Truman episode for the presidential
election of 1948. However, that error was only printed in one
newspaper, the Chicago Daily News. For the presidential
election of 1876, the two candidates were Samuel Tilden and
Rutherford B. Hayes. After the votes were counted, Tilden had
250,000 more votes than Hayes. However, the votes were still
uncounted for Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Both
parties demanded a recount. Despite the uncertainty of who
was the winner, most newspapers declared Tilden the winner
in their November 7 editions. Newspapers were filled with
editorials of controversy and both sides accused the other
side of fraud. The presidential inauguration took place on
March 5, 1877. The final winner, Rutherford B. Hayes, was
not announced until only three days prior to the inauguration.

_______________________________

The day after the Columbine High School shootings, April 21, 1999,
I received phone calls from several reporters wanting to know if
this was the worst mass-killing of children that ever took place
at a school. It wasn’t. On May 18, 1927, 45 people, mostly
children, were killed and 58 were injured when disgruntled and
demented school board member Andrew Kehoe dynamited the
new school building in Bath, Michigan. He did this out of revenge
over his foreclosed farm due in part to the taxes required to pay
for the new school. The school had students from kindergarten
to twelfth-grade. As the school’s janitor, Kehoe spent almost an
entire year wiring dynamite throughout the basement of the school.
In total, about one-thousand pounds of dynamite was planted. The
evening of May 17, Kehoe, hooked a clock mechanism to the
dynamite and set it to go off at 8:45 the next morning. He also
rigged his home with dynamite. Early morning May 18, he got
up and shot his wife. He then loaded his pickup truck bed with
more dynamite as well as scraps of metal, nails, broken glass
and other items to be used as shrapnel. Next he set off the
dynamite at his home and then drove to the school arriving at
about 9 AM, just after the school had blown up. When he arrived,
dozens of men and women were searching through the rubble
in an effort to save children. An entire wing of the school was
turned into rubble. Children could be heard screaming and crying
under the debris. Kehoe parked his truck in front of what was
left of the school, turned around in the driver’s seat and fired a
shot into the truck bed to set off the dynamite there. With this,
even more people were killed; even the few children that had
made it out of the school on their own and were wandering
around trying to figure out what had just happened. The rescue
attempts were stopped when more dynamite was found in the
school wing that had not been blown up.

Being a town of only a few hundred people, almost every
household suffered the death of one or more of their children.
Almost an entire generation was wiped out in their town. Except
for the Lansing, Michigan newspaper, all other newspapers covered
the event on inside pages, if at all. The main news coverage was
on Charles Lindbergh who was making aviation history with his flight
to Paris.
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Unique Graves, Headstones and Tombstones
http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2009/06/unique-graves-headstones-and-tombstones.html


Tellico, Monroe County, Tennessee
The Tellico Plains Mountain Press
http://www.telliquah.com/default.htm


Family Stories: genealogy - blog
http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/search/label/genealogy


A Blog About History (historytweeter) on Twitter
http://twitter.com/historytweeter


TransylvanianDutch: Database Size and Lifespan Revisited
http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/2009/06/database-size-and-lifespan-revisited.html


Free or pay; GedCom editor (download)
GedPad - Overview
http://www.tcgr.bufton.org/gpadover.htm


retrolife
http://www.billsretroworld.com/RETROLIFE.HTM


National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), Celebrating Fifty Years, 1959-2009, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/


The Moonlit Road.com - Strange Tales of the American South
http://themoonlitroad.com/