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Largest Slave Auction in American History 21 Jul 2013 | 11:48 pm
Pierce Butler, a Major in the British Army, was born to an aristocratic Irish family on July 11, 1744 in County Carlow, Ireland. As the third son, he could not inherit his father’s title or land, so h...
Heirs of Napoleon Bonaparte 13 Jul 2013 | 09:28 pm
Napoléon Bonaparte established the French Empire, also known as the Napoléonic Empire, in 1804 and immediately installed himself as Emperor. He also declared that the imperial throne would pass thro...
Happy Birthday Bill Cosby! 13 Jul 2013 | 03:26 am
Bill Cosby turns 76 today! Not many of his fans know that the Cosby family originated in Schuyler, Virginia. His great-grandparents, Zachariah Cosby and Louisa Daniel Johnson, had 17 children and ra...
Russian-American Jews under Tsars Alexander III & Nicholas II 13 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
Alexander III became Tsar of Russia on March 13, 1881, the day Alexander II was assassinated by a group of Russian terrorists. His official coronation took place two years later. Alexander III believ...
The Man Who Would Be King 12 Jul 2013 | 03:01 am
Back in the 1990s, I wanted to do a piece about the person who would be King or Queen of the United States if George Washington had chosen to be King of this country. People magazine and NBC showed s...
The Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease 9 Jul 2013 | 09:06 am
Bobby Greenlease in 1953 The first series of newspaper articles that captured my interest as a child chronicled the true crime drama of the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease. Forty years lat...
America’s Worst Maritime Disaster 9 Jul 2013 | 04:46 am
SS Sultana On April 27, 1865, twelve days after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the SS Sultana, a Mississippi River steamboat, exploded and sank near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1,547 passengers. Bu...
Applying for Cherokee Tribal Membership? 8 Jul 2013 | 08:50 am
While very few American frontiersmen married a “Cherokee Princess”, thousands wed Native Americans before 1906. If you’ve heard stories about a Cherokee ancestor somewhere in your family tree and want...
Locating Heirs, Owners of Unclaimed Property, Beneficiaries and Missing Persons 8 Jul 2013 | 08:30 am
Lineages, Inc. works with attorneys, trust officers, and private parties to locate heirs to estates at a reasonable cost. Like many other firms, it does not take a percentage (sometimes as high as 50...
Tip 3: Document Like a Pro 31 Oct 2012 | 02:16 am
Document everything! Train yourself to photocopy or transcribe the title page(s) of a publication or the bibliographic information found on library catalog entries of each record or publication used t...
