This is the rest of the sessions that I either attended or watch online at the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City last week on Friday, 22 March. “FamilySearch Family Tree: Documenting the World’s Genealogy” by Ron Tanner. Ron is a product manager doing research and design of Family Tree. He says that FS Family …
I want to wish all that visit this blog a very Merry Christmas.
The next song to hit the top of the charts was “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by The Four Seasons. It was the group’s second number one hit song of 1962.The song was written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was recorded in September 1962 and released the next month. The song was the number …
History in the making…. Kodak was in Court on Wednesday to request an extension on the date to submit a plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Judge didn’t make any decision. Instead he will make that decision next month.
After the summer break many organizations are starting up again. One of the first of the fall season is from the Greece Historical Society on Tuesday evening. The program is My Dear Brother: A Seneca Family in the Civil War Years a multimedia lecture by Deborah Holler of Program of the New York Council for …
History in the making… A press release from the drupa printing convention in Dusseldorf says that Kodak’s digital technology will help to modernize digital document printing systems and increase value for the Sociedad del Estado Casa de Moneda (Society of the State Mint), the printing site of the Argentine government. Digital capabilities will improve the …
Just before 3 a.m. on 7 Feb. there was a car reported traveling at high rate of speed in Pittsford. The car went off the road and crashed through a wooden fence of the Pioneer Burying Ground in Pittsford and then into a tree. The driver, 49 year old Norman Evans, was taken to Strong …
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I watched a show on the History Channel about Thanksgiving. There is only one existing letter that mentions the first Thanksgiving by the Pilgrims. The settlers sent out men with blunder-busts to get some “fowl.” They may have had turkey but chances are better that they had pheasants or ducks. When the feast started they …
Roy Rogers was one of my childhood heroes. I grew up watching his TV show with his wife, Dale Evans, and Pat Brady with the jeep Nellybelle. Roy was born as Leonard Slye on 5 Nov. 1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He worked in a few factory jobs before deciding to take up a musical career. …
On September 4, 1957 (also known as “E-Day”) Ford Motor Co. unveils the Edsel. Thirteen hundred Edsel dealers offered four models for sale: the larger Citation and Corsair and the smaller Pacer and Ranger. For months, the company had been running ads that simply pictured the car’s hood ornament. Everything else about the car was …