I’m surprised that I haven’t written before about Find A Grave. When I first discovered the website about 10 years ago there weren’t very many records on the website. Currently there are grave records for 62 million people on the website. Some of the records have photos of the tombstones of the person but I …
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 …
A Rochester couple have been arrested for grand larceny and scheming to defraud. They used library cards in their names and the names of their three young children to take out 392 items, mostly DVDS and Video Games and also some books. They hadn’t returned any of the items and probably had no intent to …
The Library of Congress has a project called National Jukebox to digitize 78 rpm records from before 1925. Currently they have 10,000 recordings on-line and are adding to that collection every week. The collection covers all kinds of recordings from that era including popular music, folk music, foreign language, classical and spoke word. You can …
On Family Search is an index to the 1892 NY State Census. No one is sure why New York State did a census in 1892. The State had done census on years ending in a “5″ from 1825 to 1875 but didn’t do a census in 1885. Some people think that the 1892 census was …
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The Life & Letters of Kate Gleason by Janis Gleason Tuesday May 10th, Greece Town Hall, 7:00 p.m., One Vince Tofany Blvd, 14612 Kate Gleason was the first woman to be accepted into Cornell’s engineering program. While she did not finish at Cornell, she is credited with helping her family’s small business grow into a …
The first you will notice about the Sunday schedule from 1953 is that channel 6, WHAM-TV didn’t sign on until noon. The Colgate Comedy Hour had different hosts each week and this week was the return of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis with guest singer Mary McCarthy. Here is the full day schedule for 3 …
It is Saturday in 1953 and kids all got up early to watch the shows just for them. Later in the afternoon on 2 May for the first time in Rochester, people were able to see the Kentucky Derby. It had been on TV the previous year but wasn’t on in Rochester. Here is the …