The day job today was spent cataloguing obituaries. Can't tell you who or the collection I'm working with but I can say that you really want your person of interest to end up with an obit in the Telegraph or the Times. So much info, career stuff, genealogical, gold dust all of it! #FamilyHistory
June 7, 1776: Gen. George Washington returns to New York City after his consultations with Congress in Philadelphia. He “found all, in peace & quiet" in New York, and says defensive works are being completed “with all possible diligence and dispatch.”
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June 6, 1776: Boisrond-Tonnerre, the author of Haiti’s declaration of independence that made the country the first self-ruling state in the Caribbean in 1804, is born to free Black parents. The revolutionary writer-historian also served as secretary to Haiti’s first head of state Jacques Dessalines.
Congratulations to Professor Turi King on being awarded the Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal. From leading the DNA analysis that identified Richard III to pioneering genetic genealogy her work is truly ground breaking.
“Family history and genetic genealogy have always been central to my work.”
Good #America250 story. You can read James Lafayette's petition for freedom here.
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Simon Wills’s book ‘How Our Ancestors Died: A Guide for Family Historians’ is currently available for 99p on Kindle
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Document Bank of Virginia (DBVa) is the Library of Virginia’s initiative to get documents into classrooms. Using primary sources, teachers can make history relevant to students while helping them lear...
Margaret Coffin was a congregant at Old North Church and the owner of Pew 1. In 1838, Coffin started donating Books of Common Prayer to those in need so they could participate in religious services. Historians estimate that she gave away close to 3,000 books!
Mustard Gas decontamination, American Evacuation Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France, 8 June 1918. Photo: Lt J S Brown. #OTD #WW1 Source: catalog.archives.gov/id/55189472
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During the American Revolution, James Armistead La Fayette gathered intelligence from British troops that enabled the Patriot victory at Yorktown. Having risked his life - among thousands of Black Patriots - for the establishment of the United States, he petitioned for his freedom which was granted.
