My shooter encounter at the 1984 Minneapolis Aquatennial
On Saturday, July 13th, 2024, as I watched the video coverage of the Butler, PA Trump rally shooting aftermath, there were several live on camera interviews of upset persons complaining… Read more
Battle of Point Pleasant
October 10, 1774 By Cecilia Fábos-Becker Battle of Point Pleasant The French and Indian War, aka The Seven Years War, really started in 1754, and was concluded by a treaty… Read more
Semiquincentennial Grants
US National Park Service is Accepting Applications By Cecilia Fábos-Becker American Independence Semiquincentennial We recently learned about the planned commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. Back in… Read more
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland This past week, we learned about an important new resource for family history researchers whose ancestors came from Ireland as Irish, or passed through Ireland… Read more
Why I Dropped Out of the Facebook group ‘DNA Detectives’
(and I won’t return) First a few facts. I chose to leave this Facebook group. The group did not drop me, nor had I yet been ‘suspended.’ I decided to… Read more
Queen Elizabeth II Dead
Long live King Charles III Elizabeth II Most of our readers probably know by now that Queen Elizabeth II, of the UK, passed from this life to the next on… Read more
America’s Other Irish Documentary
A Challenge from the Irish Government to American Scots especially, and Scots-Irish An International Documentary Association Project International Documentary Ass’n A bit over 2 weeks ago, my husband and I… Read more
The International Documentary Association
Films that Might Interest AmeriCeltic Readers International Documentary Ass’n About ten days ago we received an interesting request to help raise some funds for a new intended film about the… Read more
Anniversary of Action by Another Courageous Wallace
Wilma Fabos First U.S. Strike for Equal Pay for Women Wednesday, July 1st, 1981 July 1-9, 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the first strike in the U.S. on the… Read more
Finding and Sorting DNA Matches
Inherited Blood Types Check Blood Type, and compare to Documents In the last few weeks, I’ve seen several questions and discussions about how to identify parents when what is on… Read more