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 …
It was in August thirty years ago, that IBM entered the personal computer market. There were other computers available at the time including the Apple II, Tandy’s TRS-80 and the Commodore PET. The original PC model 5150 came with 16 kilobytes of memory, one 5.25 in. floppy drive (or a cassette drive), a mono color …
On May 25th 1961 President Kennedy made a speech to a joint session of Congress. In that memorial speech he said that; “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” At that time the US …
Here is a preview of the series “Who Do You Think You Are?” that starts on March 5th on NBC.
If you collect just about anything, Bag Unlimited probably have something to protect that collection.
The Penfield Local History Room has a lot of records in a small amount of space.
Rochester Genealogical Society has moved their website. It is now at: www.nyrgs.org/. For now both the old and the new website address will work. They moved because of limitations on file size that could be uploaded to RootsWeb. There are plans to upload Church records that the Church Records Group has been filming. They will …
I created some new pages on this site to sell off some of the books, postcards and other things that I no longer need. You can find them under the menu (to the right) and listed as Garage Sale. If you live in the Rochester area, you can save postage charges by having me bring …
It has been a low priority; but I have been upgrading all the web pages on the GenWeb of Monroe County site. I started re-working the pages in February and just finished last week. Mostly it has been just reworking the coding to XHTML standard which just makes it so the pages look the same …