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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Today at 10:04 »
The same author also wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" which is an excellent account of the events leading up to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.  And especially interesting to me since I grew up in the town where the first shots were fired.

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"Just my opinion, but I do believe the original Puritan settlers did set a “tone” in New England of hard work, sobriety, and a conservative approach to life, if not politics, as it does tend to be a liberal area in that regard."

There I tend to agree with you.  The actual modern religious descendants of the New England Puritans are the Congregationalists and the Unitarians, not the fundamentalist nut jobs of the bible belt.  Those Puritan settlers did set a "tone" that is still dimly perceptible today even though New England is no longer numerically dominated by pure blooded Yankees.  Certainly Yankee culture was a major theme in my paternal family.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Today at 06:30 »
"I agree, religious persecution did not enter into the reason for the early settlers coming to Canada"

And the same applies to the early settlers of the thirteen colonies that later became the United States - most of them were not religious refugees. It is estimated that some one-half to two-thirds of the early European colonists were indentured servants who supplied labor. They were not seeking religious relief. They were economic migrants merely hoping to survive long enough to gain their freedom and their own economic agency. That they had the possibility to do so is what distinguished them from the fully enslaved people who were shipped in from Africa.  There were also some 100,000 English convicts transported to the colonies.  Nevertheless, it is a fundamental right-wing belief that a burning desire for religious liberty was the motivating principle that brought settlers to the New World.  It is a bedrock myth that provides a source of righteous justification to their claims that the United States was intentionally founded as a Christian nation.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Today at 00:55 »
It's hard to see how some of these things can be considered "myths" or even commonly held, but erroneous, beliefs.

"the census will give which cottage our ancestors lived in"
"Everyone should be on the censuses ..."
"you should be able to always find a record of a death"

These may be misapprehensions held by some, but they're not myths.  A myth is a traditional story handed down from generation to generation.  They are the things you heard at your mother's knee or simplified historical 'facts' you learned in elementary school.  Myths put spin on historical reality; they teach us the accepted party line.   But who among us grew up beleving anything at all, whether true or false, about censuses or death records?  Censuses and BMDs are not the subjects of mythology.

There are genealogical myths, though.  For example, that North America was largely settled by people who were fleeing religious persecution.  Some settlers were, but not the majority.   That is a myth.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mass Observation Day 2024
« on: Tuesday 23 April 24 00:09 BST (UK)  »
"I haven't been inside a church for yonks."

I grudgingly attended confirmation class and then said, "No thanks, I don't believe a word of it."  In 65 years, I've never been back.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Monday 22 April 24 16:45 BST (UK)  »
US median age at first marriage, 1890 to present:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t4p/

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United States of America / Re: COMPANY IN LAKELAND FLORIDA USA
« on: Monday 22 April 24 15:57 BST (UK)  »
Oh, good grief!  If people can discuss fitted sheets and slug control methods, why not businesses in Florida?

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You might find some information here at the State of Florida, Division of Corporations:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t4o/

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The Lighter Side / Re: Stillbirths.
« on: Monday 01 April 24 23:04 BST (UK)  »
Why wouldn't you include them?  A stillbirth is an event in the life of the mother.  I make a note of all known events - graduation from high school, vacation trip to the Columbian Exposition, purse snatched at the train station, winner of the potato race at the village fair.  Whatever.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 'Put away?'
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 22:56 GMT (UK)  »
Ashamed?  Why?  Do you think such people should be ignored, hidden, never spoken or written about?  Unfit to be mentioned on RootsChat?  They are members of our collective family tree and should be recognized as such.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Tracing the Family Doctor from your childhood? A different NHS in the 1940s!
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 14:55 GMT (UK)  »
My childhood doctor - "a warm and friendly doctor."  Actually, I recall her as cold, distant and intimidating.  Fortunately, I was healthy kid and didn't see much of her except for routine checkups.

https://old-school-boston.blogspot.com/2013/02/remembering-pediatrician-dr-perry-in.html

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