Archive for February 4, 2009

Carnival Time!

February 4, 2009 Craig Uncategorized

The 65th Carnival of Genealogy has been posted by Becky at kinexxions.  It keeps getting bigger and better!

And now, it’s time for a Call For Submissions! The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy, to be hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene, will be: iGene Awards, The Best of The Best! It’s Academy awards time… time for the Academy of Genealogy and Family History, aka AGFH, to honor their best blog posts of 2008* in the following 5 categories:

  • Best Picture – Best old family photo that appeared on your blog in 2008. Tell us which you liked best and why.
  • Best Screen Play – Which family story that you shared in 2008 would make the best movie? Who would you cast as your family members?
  • Best Documentary – Which was the best informational article you wrote about a place, thing, or event involving your family’s history in 2008?
  • Best Biography – Which was the best biographical article you wrote in 2008?
  • Best Comedy – Which was the best funny story, poem, joke, photo, or video that you shared on your blog in 2008?

Please feel free to use this graphic on your post.

Start digging back into your archives and choose which of your blog posts deserve to be recognized for outstanding achievement. This is not a competition between bloggers but a chance for you to spotlight your own shining efforts at recording your genealogy and family history in 2008*.

There is no nomination process. You just need to announce your winning blog posts for the 5 categories mentioned above in an article on your blog and submit it to the Carnival of Genealogy. Please act as your own “award presenter” by writing an introduction and include it in the “Remarks” box on the BlogCarnival submission form.

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2009.

*We’re going to define “2008″ to include any posts written in 2008 as well as those written Jan. 1-Feb. 15, 2009 as well (so that new bloggers can participate).

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Black History Month: “Negro Subversion”

February 4, 2009 Craig Uncategorized

March 8, 1918

From: Chief, Military Intelligence Branch, Executive Division

To: Captain Roy F. Britton, Boatmen’s Bank Bldg., St Louis, Mo.

Subject: Charlie Williams (colored)

1. The above is employed as a porter-janitor at St Louis Union Station, 18th and Market St., St. Louis, Mo.

2.   About 45 years old, very black, about 5 feet 4 inches, weight about 175 pounds.   He cleans and sweeps floors in Union Station, always on second floor, west wing of building, between the hours of 7 and 8:30 A.M.

3.  Reported to be decidedly pro-German.   Reticent in speaking freely except with those he thinks he can trust.  Boasts taht the German army will “take care” of the American soldiers.  Also that the American Army will lose the war and the Germans win.

4.  Believed to be prejudiced against American Army on account of the execution of negro soldiers in the Houston riots.

5.   Is not considered a dangerous character but might be susceptible to  German influence, and is too free in his speech.

6.  An immediate invesigation and report on the above is requested.

R.H. Van Dorman,

Colonel, General Staff.

BY:

Henry T.  Hunt,

Captain,  Inf., U.S.N.A.

Transcription of letter found in files of Military Intelligence Division
Publication Title: Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division Relating to “Negro Subversion”, 1917-1941
Content Source: NARA
Content Partner: NARA
Source Publication Year: 1986
Footnote Publication Year: 2009
Record Group: 165
Footnote Job Number: 09-007
Language: English
Country: United States
File Number: 10218
Case Number Range: 101-150
Case Number: 10218-110
Date: March 5, 1918
Description: AV Burr, Supt. Pullman Co., St. Louis, MO to C, MIB. Re: Charlie Williams.

See the letter at http://www.footnote.com/image/182725250/

Part of the joint Footnote.com-National Archives Black History project, at http://go.footnote.com/blackhistory/

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