Archive for January, 2011

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Hi, I have just read your post seeking info about Walter Manley. My brother currently has all the official papers but I am pretty sure he was my great,great grandfather. His daughter Hannah married Samuel Buckley Sherrington.They were my mother’s maternal grandparents and lived in West Square Kennington. Hannah used to tell my Mum stories about her life as a bare back rider in the circus. I have a copy of Hannah and Samuel’s wedding certificate. It describes Samuel and Walter as “travellers”. In later life Samuel was a “cooper”. Samuel was born in Manchester but I can find no other info about him.

If you want to know more you can e mail me.

Best wishes.

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Geraldine Doyle, the inspiration for the iconic Rosie
the Riveter “We Can Do It!” poster of World War II, passed
away Sunday at age 86 of complications from severe arthritis.

Doyle was working at a Michigan metal factory in 1941 when a United Press International
photographer snapped this photo of the slender 17-year-old laboring in a polka-dot
bandanna:

Geraldine Doyle » Amazon.com

Artist J. Howard Miller was commissioned by the Westinghouse Corporation in 1942 to
create morale-boosting posters for its factories. Miller was so smitten with the photo
of Doyle, he drew upon it when producing the “We Can Do It!” poster:

“We Can Do It!” Poster » Wallstreetjournal.com

In 1942, Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb composed the popular
song “Rosie the Riveter,” about the new women’s workforce. Shortly thereafter,
a Norman Rockwell illustration of a red-headed riveter with the name Rosie painted
on her lunch pail graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post:

Rosie the Riveter illustration » Huffingtonpost.com

From then on, Westinghouse Corporation factory employees began associating
the woman in the “We Can Do It Posters!” with the hard-working Rosie depicted in Rockwell’s
illustration.

Because the “We Can Do It!” poster was an internal Westinghouse Corporation project,
the poster did not become a pop culture icon until her image was revived by advocates
of women’s equality in the workplace during the 1980s.

For decades Doyle was unaware she was the inspiration behind the “We Can Do It!” poster
— she quit working at the factory one week after the photo was taken, because she
feared she may permanently damage her hands on the equipment. It wasn’t until 1982,
when she came across the original photograph in a 1940s issue of Modern Maturity magazine,
that Doyle realized she was the woman behind the classic image.

Doyle then began making appearances as Rosie the Riveter, signing autographs until
her arthritis made it too painful for her to write.

“You’re not supposed to have too much pride, but I can’t help have some in that poster,”
Mrs. Doyle told the Lansing State Journal in 2002. “It’s just sad I didn’t know it
was me sooner.”

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• A retired CIA code breaker deciphered a 147-year-old message
  between Confederate officers. The dispatch indicates Maj. Gen. John G. Walker
  would not be sending additional troops to reinforce the Confederate hold on the Mississippi
  River. The same day, the Mississippi River fell to the Union.

• Historians found a myriad of errors
  in Virginia history textbooks, and many of the errors relate to the history of
  the Civil War. The books include incorrect dates for the Battle of Bull Run and the
  end of slavery, as well as erroneous figures for the amount of men who led Pickett’s
  Charge.

• The United States Postal Service is celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Civil
  War by releasing commemorative
  forever stamps depicting the major battles in the war. Souvenir sheets of two
  stamps will be issued annually, and the first set will be available April 12.

• Members of the Cincinnati Sons of Union Veterans are working with a civil war preservation
  group in Georgia to restore
  a monument in Chickamauga National Battlefield Park. The monument marks where
  Gen. William Haines Lytle, a member of one of Cincinnati’s founding families, was
  killed while leading union forces in a counterattack.

• Many states are facing cutbacks and budget turmoil, leaving little
  funding for Civil War sesquicentennial celebrations. New York, North Carolina
  and other states have yet to allocate any money for the festivities, but Virginia
  and Pennsylvania are leading the charge with budgets of $2 million and $5 million.

• Family Tree is celebrating the Civil War sesquicentennial with our latest book Life
  in Civil War America and with a special issue of Family Tree Magazine.
  Look for it on newsstands March 8.

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Online family tree builder and genealogy website MyHeritage.com has
created a virtual family
history memory game. No, it isn’t a pop quiz on your family tree, but a matching
competition similar to concentration.

To create the game, you must register for a free account and upload a GEDCOM file
to the site. Users can then automatically generate personalized picture cards of close
relatives and ancestors based on their family tree.

Following the same rules as a typical memory game, users can play online against other
family members or solo against the clock. With a webcam option, players can even include
a live picture of themselves in one pair of the cards.

Families who enjoy the online version of the game can order a hard copy for $20.

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FamilySearch has expanded again, adding over
a million records and images to its already gargantuan digital depository.

It bolstered state-specific collections, as well as collections from Canada, Spain
and Venezuela, by adding more names and digital images to existing indexes. FamilySearch
also updated the U.S. Social Security Death Index database with more names and digital
images, and created new databases of records that were not previously available online.

The new and updated collections include:

• Indiana
  Marriages, 1811-1959
• Minnesota
  Will Records, 1849-1985
• Ohio:
  Cuyahoga County Probate Files, 1813-1900
• Tennessee
  Death Records, 1914-1955
• Texas
  County Marriage Index, 1837-1977
• Wisconsin
  Probate Estate Case Files, 1861-1933
• U.S.
  Social Security Death Index
• Canada:
  New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938
• Spain:
  Granada Catholic Pre-Marriage Investigation Files Index, 1556-1899
• Venezuela:
  Merida Parish Registers, 1654-1992

Note the indexes are free to access, but you must create a free account to view digital
images of the original record.

View all of FamilySearch’s online offerings on its historical
records collections page.