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"We briefly transplant the feeling of Norway to the U.S."

Pat Lindberg is Norwegian by blood only. His grandparents, like most European immigrants of the era, strove hard to abandon the lives they left behind in Norway and fully adopt the mores of their adopted ... via Inland Valley Daily Bulletin


"The slave code in Louisiana was very peculiar, and there were a lot of things that people of color could get away with in that state that they couldn't in others"

When she was 5, saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts was asked by her dad to listen to entire albums by progressive jazz musicians such as Sun Ra and Albert Ayler . via National Public Radio


It stands as one of the more unusual turning points of the Cold War, thanks mostly to the surprise appearance of several naked middle-aged women. via MetaFilter


STRINGER Seeking any information about Gordon Graham Stuart Stringer, born Jan 1918 at Brightlingsea mother`s name Blanche Fraser. via Cousinconnect.com


"She was just a fascinating woman."

Ruth Nys, a native of Marblehead, died at home on April 26 at age 90 surrounded by her family. via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA


"The Nazis took away our names and gave us numbers. Our role is to take away the numbers and give back the names"

A mother and child separated. A father's war wound. An uncle's name on a list. The unrelated and disparate items are among the discoveries made by 40 Jewish genealogists who spent the past week plumbing a trove ... via Contra Costa Times


Does anyone have any information about the Benoni White families of Devizes, Wiltshire, England? There seem to have been a number of Benoni Whites. via Cousinconnect.com


"Traditional Cherokees believe if you have one drop of Cherokee blood, you're a Cherokee"

CHATTANOOGA - Jamie Russell reverently runs his finger down page after photocopied page, looking at names, seeking special ones. via The Tennessean


"It would really be premature for us to say anything"

The Vatican has ordered Catholic dioceses worldwide to withhold member registries from Mormons who perform posthumous baptisms. via MyFox St. Louis


"One family from Ohio is coming back for their seventh trip"

Another flowery card and a "World's Greatest Mom" coffee mug? You can do better. via Today's 6


Royal Family Trees
If you are interested in genealogy or history, royal family trees are excellent illustrations of the strange, convoluted, and always interesting tales of kings, queens and nobility. Take a look at a few them and you will be able to find the most remarkable tales with every line.

Thanks to both the adequate resources and the bookkeeping available to the nobility, royal family trees are among the most complete, most accurate, and longest kept family trees in the world. The nobility is often very interested in the genealogy of its members, as it is important to figure out just who is noble and who is not. Once upon a time, it was assumed that those with royal blood were superior to those without, so a precise role of all the members of the nobility was necessary to ensure that nothing was spoiled by mixing with those of inferior birth.

However, one of the problems with that was the fact that there was a very limited number of noble persons available. Thus, intermixing was a severe problem in the gene pool. So, when you look at a royal family tree, there will be lines that diverge, then suddenly meet up again a few generations down the road, when two distantly related, or sometimes not so distantly related people joined together and started creating new nobility. Thus, the generations started having that many more congenital problems, simply because they were receiving several genes that weren't quite formed right and were being passed down with every generation, instead of being diluted by spreading them out amongst the general populace.

As well, there constant marriages and remarriages of many members of the nobility make some interesting viewing. King Henry XIII of the England comes immediately to mind. This kind was marriage six times during his reign, meaning that he needed to either divorce or kill off his first five wives at the very least. When reading a royal family tree, every line is a story and every person a somebody. You don't need to wonder who any of the names are, they will show up in history books somewhere.

If you would like to read more about royal family trees, it is very easy to find them. They can be found on the Internet, in history books, and in the library. So feel free to take a look at them and dive into the strange world of the royalty and their often bizarre but never boring histories. Check one out today and start one of the most exciting history lessons you can ever receive.


Trevor Dumbleton - http://www.familytreeshistory.com/ is a categorized resource directory to help explore the world of genealogy, or family trees, including the history of our ancestors.

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