Monday Recap for July 1, 2013

Posted July 1, 2013 by Amanda | No Comment

Have a hankering for some genealogy news? Check out some of these articles fromt the past week:

Copyright and grandmother’s writings (The Legal Genealogist blog) – Judy G. Russell helps clarify some concerns about your family writings and copyrights
20 Powerful Black-And-White Photographs of Regular Americans From History (BuzzFeed) – Check photos of the untold faces of our country
JFK mania descends on ancestral town as Kennedy clan enjoys ‘homecoming’ (Independent.ie) – About 30 members of the Kennedy clan made the trip to their ancestral homeland in Ireland
Chuck Kunellis, Son of WWII Soldier, Receives Father’s Letters 69 Years Later (VIDEO) – Nearly 70 years later, a man receives his father’s letters home
A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash (Collectors Weekly) – Fascinating photographs of life in the trash-filled New York at the end of the 19th century
33 Beautiful Vintage Portraits of America’s Immigrant Past From Ellis Island (BuzzFeed) – Amazing photographs from the New York Public Library’s collection of immigrants from the early 1900s

Monday Recap for June 24, 2013 – Last week’s recap
Family Tree Tuesday – Henry Brooks Adams – Learn more about American journalist Henry Brooks Adams family tree
It’s in the Mail – Did you know that when the U.S. parcel service was introduced in 1913, at least 2 children were sent via parcel post with stamps attached to their clothing?