There’s a lot of good family history information available on the Internet. Here are five places we’ve enjoyed visiting this week:
- Italian Grandma Survives Depression, Strikes Gold. Elaine Underwood introduces us to “Clara Cannucciari, a 93-year-old grandmother and star of Great Depression Cooking, a web series on which she shares recipes and describes, with great charm and humor, how she and her family survived – gained weight, even – during the Great Depression.”
- Ross residents create 'diary' for township. This story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describes how a community is celebrating its bicentennial by collecting photos, documents and family memoirs for the township’s historical society archives.
- Slave Surnames: Where Are They From? Robyn on her Reclaiming Kin blog reports on a spirited discussion about the origin of slave names. As she points out, white owners rarely recorded slaves names but “you really get a sense that the slaves had coherent family structures, surnames and all, even in the midst of slavery’s frantic desire to stomp them out.”
- Meet my Great Aunt Lessie. Alysa writes in her Little Things in Life blog about her 89-year-old great aunt’s willingness to share stories – happy and sad – as her family’s last living member of her grandmother’s generation.
- Superbowl of family reunions. That’s my description of the World Acadian Congress which includes up to 90 family reunions each year. This post at Franco-American News & Events is about Louisiana’s bid to lure the event back to that state for the first time since before Hurricane Katrina.
Writing prompt of the day: Make a list of the three oldest members of your family and five questions you would like to ask each of them. You can figure out the next step.
Larry Lehmer is a professional personal historian who helps people preserve their family histories. To learn more, visit his web site, send him an e-mail or follow him on Twitter.
Flickr photo courtesy of jlcwalker.
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Posted by: nurikkisa | June 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM