Posted in News, Odds & Ends on Mar 19th, 2007
The problem with this is that he didn’t actually own the historical documents that he sold - he stole them from the National Archives.
Denning McTague, a hopefully former intern at the National Archives, allegedly stole about 165 Civil War documents - including the War Department’s announcement of President Lincoln’s death, and placed the items on [...]
Posted in Odds & Ends on Mar 11th, 2007
There’s an interesting article in Saturday’s (10 Mar 2007) New York Times by Katie Hafner titled History, Digitized (and Abridged). The article talks about how the challenges of digitizing history and how many of the historic collections and documents are not available on the Web, nor may they ever be.
As we become more and [...]
Posted in Odds & Ends on Mar 4th, 2007
Most people recognize Thomas Jefferson as the author of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. Did you know that he was also into genealogy?
I found this interesting passage in his autobiography:
“At the age of 77, I begin to make some memoranda and state some recollections of dates & facts concerning myself, for my own [...]
