So were is the Web-Text? Should have a link on your home page, and links in articles you write about it. I thought I'd bookmarked it, but now I can't find my way back, except this post, which doesn't seem to be active to the vault itself. [Update on US History 1 Vault - by Dan Allosso](https://lifelonglearn.substack.com/p/update-on-us-history-1-vault)
Excellent progress! Congrats. Yes the genealogies are fascinating. I bet people would be motivated who trace their own family trees and might connect to recorded history somewhere. The geographical connections are always fascinating to me too. What happens to people in places and to places inhabited by certain people. And what happens when they move? Recently visiting my Dad I heard stories of how my grandfather went up from Alabama to Michigan during the auto boom. He lived across the border in Canada where he met my French Canadian grandmother who was the daughter of the lady who ran the boarding house. She was supposed to be 16 to get married but she was only 15. My dad, second of 10 children, was born in Canada. Grandpa worked as a mechanic for the delivery trucks at Vernors Ginger Ale. And tended roses. People were made of sterner stuff back then. But they weren’t always very nice either… Family histories esp in this country tell a lot!
Tracy, I can relate to your Canadian roots, having lived in Sarnia, Toronto and St. Bruno. I've traced my Irish roots to County Clare, and have stood on the land where my great grandfather lived as a boy, having come to the US just following the potato famine.
I have owned one acre; I grew up on an 180 acre farm. I can't imagine owning 8000 acres. How did the Washingtons "acquire" it? Did a King give it to them? For what? How has it been divided since then? Whose wealth is now based upon it?
Infinity (and beyond) is a little bigger than the mere population of the early or even later US, the world even...
Just think of the 'space' on the old 5 1/4" floppies of less than half our lifetimes to the 4, 6 or 8TB operable SSDs that are in our pockets or pouches today.
Braintree, in Essex, UK... where my great aunt and uncle were the school heads... a very interesting 'summer' stay away for a London city kid... back in the day.: )))) A very tangential couple of weeks on the edge of Constable Country before the Elms mostly disappeared to Duch Elm Disease and so changing the British 'Home Counties' landscape forever.
So were is the Web-Text? Should have a link on your home page, and links in articles you write about it. I thought I'd bookmarked it, but now I can't find my way back, except this post, which doesn't seem to be active to the vault itself. [Update on US History 1 Vault - by Dan Allosso](https://lifelonglearn.substack.com/p/update-on-us-history-1-vault)
Excellent progress! Congrats. Yes the genealogies are fascinating. I bet people would be motivated who trace their own family trees and might connect to recorded history somewhere. The geographical connections are always fascinating to me too. What happens to people in places and to places inhabited by certain people. And what happens when they move? Recently visiting my Dad I heard stories of how my grandfather went up from Alabama to Michigan during the auto boom. He lived across the border in Canada where he met my French Canadian grandmother who was the daughter of the lady who ran the boarding house. She was supposed to be 16 to get married but she was only 15. My dad, second of 10 children, was born in Canada. Grandpa worked as a mechanic for the delivery trucks at Vernors Ginger Ale. And tended roses. People were made of sterner stuff back then. But they weren’t always very nice either… Family histories esp in this country tell a lot!
Tracy, I can relate to your Canadian roots, having lived in Sarnia, Toronto and St. Bruno. I've traced my Irish roots to County Clare, and have stood on the land where my great grandfather lived as a boy, having come to the US just following the potato famine.
I have owned one acre; I grew up on an 180 acre farm. I can't imagine owning 8000 acres. How did the Washingtons "acquire" it? Did a King give it to them? For what? How has it been divided since then? Whose wealth is now based upon it?
Infinity (and beyond) is a little bigger than the mere population of the early or even later US, the world even...
Just think of the 'space' on the old 5 1/4" floppies of less than half our lifetimes to the 4, 6 or 8TB operable SSDs that are in our pockets or pouches today.
Braintree, in Essex, UK... where my great aunt and uncle were the school heads... a very interesting 'summer' stay away for a London city kid... back in the day.: )))) A very tangential couple of weeks on the edge of Constable Country before the Elms mostly disappeared to Duch Elm Disease and so changing the British 'Home Counties' landscape forever.
I would find the "Gilded Age" material of particular interest, and would be great if you connected some of that to the current "Golden Age."