Time Capsules
Posted by David | Filed under history
Good: St. Charles finds 1886 time capsule.
Bad: Buried history — Overland can’t find its 50-year-old time capsule.
Both from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
National Personnel Records Center
Posted by David | Filed under history, military
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: National Personnel Records Center in Overland connects European sons, daughters of American GIs with information about their fathers. (A video is also available at the top right of the article.)
The Founders of St. Louis
Posted by David | Filed under cemetery, history
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Looming over a mass grave, a new monument to early St. Louisans.
Mound City
Posted by David | Filed under cemetery, history
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Osage Tribe May Buy Ancestral Mound.
The Upside of Being Sick
Posted by David | Filed under cemetery, genealogy, history
Time to think. Once the headache subsides, the amount of idle time to think is probably the best thing about being sick. And at the forefront of those thoughts is, of course, genealogy. Random things that popped into my head:
Chris Dunham’s 1940 Census Countdown. We still have 3+ years until the next federal population census [...]
1904 World’s Fair
Posted by David | Filed under history
The Missouri History Museum has been posting photos from their collection to Flickr and a few of the images caught my eye. I guess it’s worth mentioning that when you talk to many older St. Louisans about the city’s (or region’s) history the 1904 World’s Fair is bound to come up as a major event. [...]
Hatfields
Posted by David | Filed under history
Three St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about Hatfield descendants:
Two Hatfields on trial for drugstore burglaries (16 Oct 2008)
Hatfield descendants convicted in East St. Louis case (30 Oct 2008)
Hatfield descendant gets life for burglary ring (20 Mar 2009)
Testing the move and junk mail
Posted by David | Filed under genealogy, history
If you’re reading this via my feed, thank you, Google/Feedburner. I actually moved the feed a few weeks ago, but have had little time to finalize everything. I don’t think I’ll bother moving everything over from Blogspot, though. There’s also a database issue that managed to blindside me recently, but I’ll get to that another [...]
