Life Records is the name of the index of vital records in Rochester and Brockport newspapers. It was created by staff at the Rochester Public Library. It has been off-line for 18 months because of problems with finding a vendor able to handle the service. The index is now back with some changes on the …
I was sitting at Wegmans waiting for a prescription and they had a nice book to look at sitting on their end table. It was: Finger Lakes Panoramas. It is a large size book (12X9) and has some great large photos of the Finger Lakes Region. I looked in Wegmans book section and they had …
On Monday, 26 Sept., was the first burial in a new veterans cemetery that has been in the planning for over 15 years. Clinton Van Gelder, formerly of Intelaken, NY, who died on 22 Jan. 2010, had told his wife, Eva, that he wished to be buried in the new veterans cemetery. Van Gelder had …
Today marks 10 years since the US was attacked. Remember as you watch the dedication of the memorial at Ground Zero that the nearly 3000 people that died all had families that miss them. I found a set of web pages on CNN that list all the people that died on 9/11/01. It gives their …
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 …
A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has science website buzzing. It confirms that medieval plague that caused the Black Death in Europe from 1347 to 1351 was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. That bacteria still exists today but is nowhere as lethal as it once was. Recent analysis …