Public Schools
Good Schools A Staple of Ancestors’ Lives
This was produced for the 17th edition of “Smile for the Camera” I really don’t have much in the way of photographs on my ancestors’ school days. I have in the past posted school census records from the very early twentieth century in Milam County, Texas, where my gg-grandmother and her descendants lived. But I know virtually nothing about my …
September 10, 2009 Thursday at 3:05 pm
Henry Gates’ Next Big Thing: Take It to the Classroom
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the sort of fellow who wakes up in the middle of the night with grandiose ideas but not necessarily unique ideas. The difference is that when Gates has a nocturnal brainstorm, it’s likely to turn into great happenings in the daylight. So, one can hope, will it be with his next big thing: taking genealogy …
August 20, 2008 Wednesday at 6:40 pm
