Writing our ancestor’s stories requires more than vital records. Sometimes we think of “historic context” as world wars or pandemics. While those affected everyone, consider events in our ancestor’s town
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As many as 50 million people worldwide died during the influenza pandemic that came in waves that lasted almost three years from mid-1918 through the summer of 1920, leaving few
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Today is a special day for me and for Roma Mary Grace. Thirty-one years ago today Roma Clara Josephine Rasa Siegel left the physical world and became a guardian angel. She was a mother, grandmother, neighbor and friend to many. To me she was an inspiration and since that day I have often felt her presence in my life. In her hometown of Florence, Missouri, Roma was not only the keeper of family memories, she was known as local historian.
See my lecture at the National World War One Memorial & Museum in Kansas City, MO on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Hear how the illness affected the war and the
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