The RootsTech Conference starts tomorrow (March 6th). I spent some time setting up my schedule of sessions that I want to view. I ended up with 41 videos. Some I will watch live and others I will view next week. I noticed that the schedule shows everything in my time zone. I think that previously it …
Last week I scanned some programs for Masonic events. Four of them are for events of the Ancient Craft Lodge, No. 943 in Rochester. That Lodge was formed May 29, 1916. It appears that the Lodge not longer exists. These programs are now available for your viewing (even if you aren’t a Mason): Ladies’ Night …
This Week in Rochester is a weekly entertainment magazine. It had radio programs, movie and live shows at theaters. Also toward the rear of the magazine are timetables for local trolleys, buses and railroads. Now available are: Vol. 7. no. 14; Aug. 28 – Sept. 4, 1926. Appearing with the “Mutt and Jeff’ show at …
I feel real bad. For almost 40 years I have been spreading wrong information on the parents of my 2nd great-grandmother Nancy (Gibson) Lason. When I first started doing my genealogy about 1976 we had a family Bible with a pedigree chart that went back as far as Nancy. She was born in 1824 in …