{"id":38130,"date":"2016-07-15T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38130"},"modified":"2016-07-15T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:28:40","slug":"serendipity-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38130","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

*** YouTube: A Great Bet for YOU!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

*** Reform School: Did Your Ancestor “Attend?”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

*** Naps Restaurant, Hamilton, Montana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

*** Is There Doukhobor In Your Ancestry?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

*** Red Plush: Story of the Moorhouse Family<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"YouTube\"<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you taking advantage of all the videos posted on YouTube related to genealogy and family history research?\u201d This question was asked in the UpFront with NGS<\/em> blog back on June 8th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Did you realize that just like TV channels (NBC, ABC, CBS, etc) you have genealogy channels on YouTube\u2026\u2026 you have LOC (Library of Congress), NARA (National Archives), LVA (Library of Virginia), FamilySearch and Ancestry, just for some examples. The NGS posting-person continued:\u00a0 \u201cSomething I like about videos is that I can listen to them in the background as I am doing other work. Then, if something catches my ear, I can pull up the viewer, rewind and then actually \u201cwatch\u201d a segment of interest.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Something new for us to consider.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Did you have an ancestor who was sent to Reform School?\u00a0 According to Wikipedia, \u201cIn the U. S., a reform school was a penal institution, generally for teenagers.\u201d\u00a0 In the United Kingdom such places were termed Industrial Schools. \u201cSocial reformers in America in the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> century found fault with the ten-usual practice of treating juvenile offenders the same as adult criminals.\u201d And so a system of Reform Schools was instituted and lasted well into mid-century. Bottom line, states the Wikipedia article, \u201cfor the most part, these institutions were custodial.\u201d\u00a0 Meaning, there was no effort at \u201creforming\u201d a young person.\u00a0 Did you have an ancestor who was sent to Reform School? We\u2019d love to hear your story!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Naps\"<\/p>\n

We had the best-ever Sweet Potato Fries last month at a little place called Naps in Hamilton, Montana (south of Missoula). Their website says they\u2019ve been in the same spot for 15 years. Curious about the name, I asked. \u201cWe think it was named Naps by the original owner, a Mr. Napolitano.\u201d Well that certain makes sense!\u00a0 There is always <\/strong>a story lurking. You just gotta ask.<\/p>\n

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Was your Canadian ancestor a Doukhobor? Doukhobors<\/strong>\u00a0are a sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom now live in western Canada. They are known for a radical pacifism which brought them notoriety during the 20th century. Today, their descendants in Canada number approximately 20,000, with one third still active in their culture. (This from the Canadian Encyclopedia). I did some reading about this group, their travels and trials, and found it most interesting (although I do not have a Doukhobor ancestor).\u00a0 I did find that one of the primary research aids is Doukhobor Ship Passenger Lists, 1898-1928<\/em>, by Lapshinoff and Kalmakoff, and the Family History Library does<\/u> have a copy of this book. The book contains names of over 5000 persons taken from over 30 lists and not just names but family groups, age, sex, occupation and ports of arrival and departure.<\/p>\n

Also learned about the Doukhobor Gazetteer<\/em>, \u201ca comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places associated with the Doukhobors in (12 countries!!).<\/p>\n

These good people came to Canada because freedom was offered, as was land for homesteading. And Canada exempted them from military service.<\/p>\n

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\"Red<\/p>\n

Found this 1941 book for 25-cents at a garage sale; the title made me dig out my quarter. Red Plush: The Story of the Moorhouse Family<\/em>, by Guy McCrone.\u00a0 This description is from Amazon:\u00a0 Against the background of Victorian Glasgow, and later of glamorous Vienna, these three leisurely novels begin the story of the Moorhouse family. This book contains the story of the Moorhouse Family in three intertwined stories in one book: Book One: The City, Book Two: The Philistines, Book Three: The Puritans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve not tucked into it yet so I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s biographical or fiction. But if you have a Moorhouse family in your ancestry and you would like this book, it will be on its way to you for only the cost of postage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*** YouTube: A Great Bet for YOU! *** Reform School: Did Your Ancestor “Attend?” *** Naps Restaurant, Hamilton, Montana *** Is There Doukhobor In Your Ancestry? *** Red Plush: Story of the Moorhouse Family \u201cAre you taking advantage of all Continue reading Serendipity Day<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38131,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38130\/revisions\/38131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}