It is New Year’s Eve 1852 and Henry Hydenwell sits at his desk by candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to write his New Year’s resolutions.
The Socks to America
September 16, 2007 at 9:47 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour, Video
From the folks at Genealogy Gems, a documentary spoof (a la Ken Burns) chronicling the immigration of the fictitious “Sockish” people (aka Sock Puppets). Genealogists & Historians alike sit back and enjoy a chuckle at our favorite pastime.
Death from exposure due to alcohol
August 19, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
Over and over during her lifetime, my mother and other relatives used to share family tidbits. One was that an ancestor had died in a snow bank with his thumb in a whiskey bottle–presumably to protect the contents.
Pining for a Porker
August 14, 2007 at 12:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
I’ve been reading a local history about Eugene Township (Indiana) by Harold L. O’Donnell, which was published in 1963. In one chapter he mentions the Chicago and Eastern Illinois (C&EI) Railroad coming to town, and he discusses the danger it was to livestock.
Old Age Can Kill You
August 5, 2007 at 3:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
Marilyn had been transcribing county death schedules from New Brunswick, and discovered that:
You Want to Know What?
August 2, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
I thought readers might enjoy this paragraph written by census enumerator Mary Ames Atkins at the end of the 1880 Salem, Massachusetts census, Enumeration District 240:
Correspondence
July 27, 2007 at 4:35 pm (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
These are copies of actual correspondence received by the Family History Department, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Argue & Phibbs, Solicitors
July 26, 2007 at 3:33 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
This long-forgotten Sligo, Ireland based firm of solicitors was a partnership between Mr W. H. Argue and Mr Talbot Phibbs. A 1920′s newspaper reported that they were actively considering taking on a third member of staff, a solicitor from England by the name of Cheetam.
For more details visit http://www.sligotown.net/courthouse.shtml
Remained a Bird
July 25, 2007 at 8:14 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour
While extracting obituaries from the following newspaper I came across this humorous item.
Joyce Hambleton Whitten
