Monday Recap for September 8, 2014
Have a great weekend? Kickstart your week with these articles from around the web.
Image: 1900: “Visions of 2000” / Retronaut
The Genealogy Sphere
- 1900: “Visions of 2000” (Retronaut) – See how people of the 1900s envisioned the future
- How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world (Chicago Reader) – For a quarter century, this couple have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer responsible for a treasure trove of images from 1940s India
- Facebook reunites family after 60 years apart (bt.com) – Siblings separated for over sixty years are finally reunited thanks to a Facebook profile picture
- Mother beats incredible odds giving birth to third generation of twins (DailyMail UK) – Do twins run in your family? A women gives birth to a third generation of twins
- Every Five Years Since 1982, These Five Friends Meet Up To Take The Same Picture (SF Gate) – Take a look at this amazing project by five high school friends
- Pennsylvania Woman Has 126 Descendants…and Counting (Yahoo! News) – A 91-year-old Pennsylvania woman who grew up an only child and once planned to enter a convent now has enough descendants to fill a convent, and then some
- 91-Year-Old Utah Woman Skydives with 4 Generations (WJHL.com) – Amazing! Could this be your next family reunion activity?
On Geni
- Monday Recap for September 1, 2014 – Last week’s recap
- Patents: George Eastman and the Roll Film Camera – We take a look at the early film roll camera patented by George Eastman