Women in World War II Took on Amazing Jobs

 

Women served on both sides of World War II, in official military roles that came closer to combat than ever before. The Soviet Union, in particular, mobilized its women: Upward of 800,000 would enlist in the Red Army during the war, with more than half of these serving in front-line units. British forces included many women alongside men in vital anti-aircraft units. And Nazi Germany followed suit later in the conflict when its flagging fortunes required the nation’s full mobilization.

Additional text on women as bombers, TheAck Ack Girls, and much more at:

https://tinyurl.com/wv6pszd 

Your Comprehensive Genealogy Glossary

 

Every serious researcher knows the importance of understanding the genealogy "lingo." Like other areas of study, family history has its own vocabulary that you’ll encounter in your research. Our editorial staff has put together this list of key genealogy terms to give you a hand.

Go to https://tinyurl.com/ycpq4zye for alphabetical listings 

23 Secrets to Organize Your Genealogy Free eBook

 

Identify some organizational goals then set aside an afternoon and compile all of your genealogy materials. Whether you have one small box or 10 big boxes, no matter. Just pull it all into your working space.

Next, you’re going to assess what you own. This isn’t a detailed assessment, but rather a chance (and for some this may be your first time) to see all of your genealogy papers in one place. Don’t worry about logging everything at this time either. For now, just get a sense of what you own.

Looking for more tips and a free e-book? Go to: https://tinyurl.com/yc2vd262

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Visting Dead Relatives on Google Street Images

 Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased.

Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a bit masochistic, the Switzerland-based art school student input their street address and then clicked on the Street View icon, which showed panoramic photos of the property.

Built decades ago by her grandfather Siegfried, the house had fallen into disrepair since his death from cancer in 2016, its once lush lawn now filled with withered and dying plants. But on Google Street View, Hoenle found older images of the home from before its decline. She scrolled through the photographs, reminiscing when she noticed something else: her grandfather.  

Read more of this story from  JESSIE SCHIEWE at https://www.okwhatever.org/topics/things/dead-relative-google-street-view

Puritan Virtue Names

If you are researching early Colonial records in your family, chances are you will find an unusual name, used by the Puritans. 


The Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries used many virtue names which have fallen mostly out of use today. There are however, a remaining use of Faith, Hope, Cherish, and Joy. The following list were used during the early Puritan years.  

Abstinence
Accepted
Aid-on-high
Amity
Approved
Arise
Ashes
Assurance
Be-courteous
Be-faithful
Benevolence
Belief
Beloved
Be-strong
Be-thankful
Called
Charity
Clemency
Comfort
Concord
Confidence
Consider
Constance
Constancy
Constant
Continent
Deliverance
Delivery
Depend
Desire
Difficult
Diffidence 
Diligence
Discipline
Discretion
Donation
Dust
Earth
Elected
Endure
Experience
Faint-not
Faith
Faithful
Faith-my-joy
Fare-well
Fear
Fear-not
Fear-the-Lord
Felicity
Fidel
Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith
Flie-Fornication
Fly-debate
Fly-fornication
Forsaken
Fortune
Freegift
From-above
Given
Give-thanks
Godly
God-reward
Grace
Gracious
Handmaid
Has Descendents
Hate-evil
Hatill (Hate-ill)
Helpless
Help-on-High
Honesty
Honour
Hope
Hope-for
Hopeful
Hope-still
Humanity
Humble
Humiliation
Humility
If-Christ-had- not-died-for- thee-thou-hadst- been-damned
Increase
Increased
Jesus-Christ-came- into-the-world- to-save
Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes
Joy
Joy-again
Joye-in-sorrow
Just
Justice
Kill-sin
Lament
Lamentation
Learn-Wisdom
Lively
Live-well
Love
Love-well
Magnify
Make-peace
Meek
Merciful
Mercy
More-fruit
More-trial
Moses
Much-mercy
Nehemiah
No-merit
Obedience
Original
Pardon
Patience
Peaceable
Perseverance
Piety
Praise-God
Preserved
Providence
Prudence
Purific
Purify
Recompense
Redeemed
Reformation
Refrayne
Rejoice
Rejoyce
Remember
Renewed
Repent
Repentance
Replenish
Resolve
Resolved
Restore
Return
Safe-deliverance
Safe-on-high
Salvation
Search-the-scriptures
Seek-wisdom
Silence
Sincere
Sin-deny
Small-hope
Sorry-for-sin
Sorrowful
Stand-fast-on-high 
Steadfast
Submit
Supply
Temperance
Thankful
Thanks
The-Lord-is-near
The-peace-of-God
Thurgood
Tribulation
Troth
Truth
Unfeigned
Unity
Verity
Victory
Virtue
Wealthy
Weep-not
What-God-will
Wrestling
Zeal-for-the-Lord
Zeal-of-the-Land