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The largest and most detailed study of an English parish on the Internet. Much of the rest of Derbyshire is covered as well. for more click here
Wolfert Van Couwenhoven visited New Amsterdam in 1625 but apparently was unimpressed. He left town and went home to the Netherlands, only to return five years later and purchase a large tract of land on Long Island. He probably never imagined that his odyssey would be immortalized, but there it is, nearly 400 years later. [...]
July 19 (Bloomberg) — Jo Stafford, who sang backup for Frank Sinatra and performed with Tommy Dorsey, died July 16 at her Century City, California, home, the New York Times reported. She was 90.
The biggest hit for Stafford, a singer in the Pied Pipers and then a soloist, was “You Belong to Me” in [...]
Last week, I told the story of an alternative theory concerning the parentage of Abraham Lincoln. My summary was taken from The Abraham Lincoln Genesis Cover-up: The Censored Origins of an Illustrious Ancestor by R. Vincent Enslow. Elslow’s paper can be read in its entirety at the Genealogy Today e-magazine Web site at www.genealogyto
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While Scotland is only a small nation with an historically small population the influence of the Scots upon the world of today is disproportional. Throughout history a disproportionate number of Scottish men and women have played incredibly important roles in the history of the vast majority of countries of the world. From the Founding Fathers [...]