Back on June 1st a car crashed into some tombstones in the Honeoye Falls Cemetery. Now it has happened again. This time, six tombstones and a fence were damaged in the cemetery including some tombstones that were over 100 years old. The Village Administrator says police told him a vehicle lost control and drove into …
Dick Eastman on his blog has been following the story of lost records at Arlington National Cemetery. This story started back last year in June when an article in the Washington Post said that dozens of burial plots appear on maps as occupied but have no headstone, and some graves that have a headstone are …
As hurricane Irene blew up through the east coast this last weekend, I wondered if bad weather might be one of reasons that my 4th great grandfather, Matthew Halsey, moved away from his parent’s home. He was born in Bridgehampton. NY out on the east end Long Island. The house of his parent’s was built …
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 …
Last week I received another issue of RootsWeb Review via email. In the issue is an article by Mary Harrell-Sesniak about translating Latin words in documents. She included a link to a page on FamilySearch.org with a Latin Word List. I really needed a list of German words for my research. Doing a search I …
There is an article by Kimberly Powell over here on About.com about the influenza (flu) epidemic of 1918 – 1919. In the article, it says that an estimated 50 million people died worldwide from the flu during that time. During that same time, World War I had casualties of 16½ million. So the flu was …
While looking around in the Rochester Public Library website, I found some new scanned documents. They are tax assessment rolls for the Town of Henrietta. They cover the time period from 1819 to 1907 but there aren’t any for the 1830s or 1840s. They list the number of acres of property that a person has. …
If you are looking for probate records from Monroe County from the 1800s then there is a service online called Sampubco that will make a copy of a will (1821 – 1901) and send it to you. They get the will from microfilms that were done by the LDS many years ago. Sampubco has created …
It was thirty years ago on Aug. 1, 1981 that MTV signed on. That first day only a few thousand of people on a cable system in New Jersey were able to receive the channel. The first video that was broadcast was “Video Killed the Radio Star“.by a group known as The Buggles. Music videos …
Last month there was a book published on the history of the Rochester Public Library. Rochester Public Library: 100 Years of Service, 1911 – 2011 was written by a team of staff from the library and retirees. It features over 250 photographs, many never before published. The book not only covers the Central Library but …