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Updates: August 24, 2001
Hi Ya'll!
It's been busy, busy, busy around here, as always, with lessons for kids and weaning for puppies. Gosh they're funny! The kids and the puppies.
Did you know that it takes more than a few tries for puppies to figure out that they don't need to crawl into the dish with the food in order to eat it? It's been an adventure, to say the least, but a very sweet and wiggly adventure, and we don't regret it.
For those of you who are new subscribers, this portion of The Olden Times is not indexed by the FreeFind search engine's spider, so you have the advantage of the updates and the bimonthly index of locations only if you're a subscriber.
For whatever that's worth. Hey - at least it's free!
If the most recent issue of August 10 was your first issue, please note that this one looks so much shorter because August 10 covered an entire month's worth of updates. I missed an issue in there. Too many kids, too many dogs....
As usual, this week's newsletter includes names added in the past two weeks AND locations, too, along with a few notable headlines.
For those of you who are new to this newsletter, you can also read past issues of Updates.
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But... I've always wished they had a better selection of genealogy books. So many of the ones I find are either out of print or have to be ordered and will take 4-6 weeks, etc.
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You'll see their banners on these pages as well as links to specific books that they offer. Any purchases you may make, if you've linked to them from this website, will help support The Olden Times, as well as earn my undying gratitude.
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I do! I do! The University of North Carolina Press' website still has a book giveaway going on! Just fill in your name & email address and you're entered for a free book package drawing. No skill required whatsoever (whew!). Good luck!
Folks are making connections!
I can't tell you how thrilled I am when someone finds a familiar name here on The Olden Times! I've begun adding a few of the interesting emails that I receive about this site and the old stories. There isn't a link yet from the main part of the site, but you can see the beginning of this new section on the Connections pages.
I'm still behind, as always, in getting everything online, but I'll keep working at it. I just bought a new case of toothpicks with which to hold up my eyelids!
Don't see your area of interest in the locations?
Don't worry! Sooner or later I'll get to it.
Remember, I'm not Ancestry.com, and I'm not Genealogy.com. I'm just a one-person operation with the very important job titles of Mom, Home School Teacher, and Head Poodle Wrangler.
A Shocking and Disturbing Revelation
I confess: I am completely shocked!
A few weeks ago I posted an old rebus puzzle and suggested that you email me if you solved it, or if you came pretty close.
I happen to know that all of the regular visitors to The Olden Times are of above average intelligence, wittier than most, and blessed with an uncanny ability to figure things out. You're genealogists, aren't you?
But I have only heard from one reader about that puzzle. And she's my mother-in-law, who only came to the website to print out the puzzle!
Yes, it's a huge graphic, which I thought would be necessary for printing out the details. It'll open in a seperate window so that you can go on browsing elsewhere until it's ready to print.
But I figured that you, of all people, would send some very clever solutions, or at least partial solutions, because genealogy is a four dimensional puzzle!
Genealogy is a puzzle with very real, 3-dimensional people (even if they are dead), occasionally tricky aspects of geography, the very challenging business of historic records (or the lack thereof), plus the added dimension of time.
So let's have your solutions!
Coming Soon on The Olden Times
Coming soon.... an FAQ about these old newspapers, as well as what I am and am not able to find.
Also, a few notes about medical history. It'll make me feel like I'm doing something with my medical education besides just writing huge checks to pay back those med school loans every month. I tell my husband that although I may not look like it, I am actually the World's Most Expensive Trophy Wife: a physician who isn't practicing medicine.
This website is my hobby, and it's what keeps me sane while I home school my kids. It's still cheaper than afternoons at some country club or at Nieman's.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again (and again): ya'll truly are some of the nicest folks around, judging from your email, and I am so happy to be able to share this with you. I really enjoy it.
It's such a pleasure to know that there are so many people who enjoy my old newspaper collection while they hunt through these infinite haystacks for their ancestors!
Besides, if I weren't sharing these old newspapers and all of their clues, I'd have no excuse for all the papers piled up around my house. I might have to clean it all up.
That would not be a good thing. No matter what Martha Stewart says.
I am very grateful for your support, whether you've told someone about The Olden Times, or bought your printer ink or books from one of my sponsors' links on these pages, or simply emailed me to tell me that you like the website.
And thank you to those of you who email me to let me know when one of the links isn't working....if you don't tell me, I can't fix it! Thanks for helping me to get it right.
Any way you slice it, you've helped me out. A small portion of your printer ink or book dollars goes to The Olden Times, which helps me pay for these old newspapers.
Best of all, your wonderful emails have lifted my spirits and given me new energy and enthusiasm. Usually just when I need it.
I hope to live up to my end of the deal by continuing to provide good, solid, and thoroughly unique content...at a price you'll always like: FREE.
As always, thanks for your patience, and thanks so much for visiting!
Barbara Allen
Names Added in the Past Two Weeks
Locations Mentioned in the Past Two Weeks
Native Americans in the News:
Waco Indians Not to be Served Liquor When Attending Cotton Expo, 1912
Josie BILLIE, Seminole Medicine Man, 1929
Notable:
Mary CREEDON Suddenly Insane, 1881
CARTER & McELROY: When Cars Were News! 1913
Why little Mr. MORGAN May Have Developed a Lifelong Aversion to Beans, 1913
Gus SELZ is an Enterprising Barber, 1881
A Waxahachie Luncheon, 1912 This is interesting if you'd like to know more about how young ladies entertained each other in the early 1900's.
Crimes and Politics...or is that redundant?
John BAILEY Will Likely be Lynched, 1879
GIPSON Gets 25 Years for Murder of Brother, AL, 1919
Norfolk Tragedy: MURRAY Killed by Daughter's Alleged Seducer, 1869
Accidents:
WILEY Dies from Injuries Sustained in Accident, PA, 1871
The Calcutta is Shipwrecked; the Captain's Dog is Saved, 1881
The Ramos is Capsized by a Whirlwind, 6 are Drowned, 1879
Disasters
Storm at Norfolk, Virginia, 1801
Diseases
Military & Vets:
Troop Movements Reported from Utica, NY, 1813
More Honors for the 115th Field Artillery, 1919
Ships:
The Calcutta, 1881
The Ramos, 1879
The Swift (Danish), 1801
The Batesville, 1879
Cemeteries
Mount Olivet, Nashville, Tennessee
Recipes:
New Special Section:
New State Index:
Fairly Funny Stuff:
Eager to Assert his Rights, 1913
Free Graphics:Mischievous Clowns, 1881 Not your friendly circus clowns, either...
Horse-Drawn Hearse, 1913
Cabbage, 1912
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