Saturday, March 14, 2020

Saturday Serendipity (March 14, 2020)


Below are some recommended reads for this weekend while exercising your "social distancing."

1.   If you have -- or suspect you have -- Scottish roots, you might be interested in reading the answer to the question, "Do all Scottish families have a tartan?"  This week The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS linked to the article that discusses this question and you can read it here

2.   Genealogy's Star author, James Tanner, posted a nice resource piece on help for locting cemeteries and graves.  He provides a summary of the available online sources for cemetery/grave searches.  You can see the post here.  

3.    Janice Brown of Cow Hampshire blog has been posting about notable New Hampshire women during this Women's History Month.  You can see her recent posts highlighting New Hampshire women of note by going to the home page here and scrolling down through her March posts.  

4.   Nothing much to say about yesterday's post by The Legal Genealogist, Judy Russell, except that everyone should read her post, "Because of what today is" here. 'Nuf said.   

5.   On February 29th I recommended two books about the 1918 flu pandemic; one was the detailed examination of that horrible time by John M. Barry–The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History.  I first blogged about this book and the 1918 flu pandemic here.    I think it is still worth a read given the rapidly advancing spread of Covid19 in what is now another pandemic and the disjointed attempts by our federal government to catch up with efforts to slow and manage the emergency.  John M. Barry was recently interviewed about the current emergency and the lesson of the 1918 flu pandemic.  You can read the interview here.

6.   And finally, as we begin to engage with voluntary and mandatory "social distancing" now that Covid19 has becomae an official pandemic, The Weekly Genealogist, linked to a timely and topical article on a 17th century English village quarantine.  You can read the sad, but heroic, story here

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Copyright 2020, John D. Tew
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