Thursday, April 30, 2009
Roman York Skeleton Could Be Early TB Victim
Radiocarbon dating suggests that the man died in the fourth century. He was interred in a shallow scoop in a flexed position, on his left side.
The man, aged 26–35 years, suffered from iron deficiency anaemia during childhood and at 162 centimetres (5ft 4in), was a shorter height than average for Roman males.
The first known case of TB in Britain is from the Iron Age (300 BC) but cases in the Roman period are fairly rare, and largely confined to the southern half of England. TB is most frequent from the 12th century AD in England when people were living in urban environments. So the skeleton may provide crucial evidence for the origin and development of the disease in this country.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
More Obits From The Wichita Eagle, Sedgwick County Kansas
Monday, April 27, 2009
Coffin Plate of Millicent McLean 1888~1905
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Egyptians hope to find Cleopatra's tomb
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
CanadaGenWeb's Cemetery Project Updates
http://cemetery.canadagenweb.org
Photos are now online for:
MANITOBA
- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery, Ethelbert
SASKATCHEWAN
- Riverview Cemetery, Kamsack
ONTARIO
Elgin County:
- Light Cemetery
- Old Richmond Cemetery
Essex County:
- Fairview Cemetery
Kent County:
- Sherman Cemetery
- Wallace Cemetery
Lambton County:
- Delmage / Little Methodist Cemetery
Leeds County:
- Herald Angel Anglican Church Cemetery
Lincoln County:
- Lakeshore Cemetery
Middlesex County:
- Littlewood Cemetery
- Melrose United Cemetery
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery Sections D & S
- St Peter's Cemetery
Norfolk County:
- Johnson Cemetery
- Port Dover
- St John's Anglican Church Cemetery
- Windham Centre Cemetery
- Woodhouse United / Old Methodist Cemetery
Wentworth County:
- Free Methodist Church Cemetery
- Hamilton Cemetery Section T
- St George's Anglican Cemetery
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Saving Shanghai’s Jewish past, headstone by headstone
and volunteers are restoring dozens of historic Jewish cemeteries.
But in Shanghai, there are none to restore.
The four cemeteries that once served this city's small but prosperous
Jewish community disappeared in the late 1960s during China's Cultural
Revolution. The sites were paved over to build a factory, park, hotel
and Muslim cemetery, their history forgotten.
Israeli photojournalist Dvir Bar-Gal is trying to change that.
While the cemeteries may be gone, since 2001 Bar-Gal has made it his
mission to track down as many of the original headstones as possible.
He has located 85 and hopes to use them in a memorial to Shanghai's
Jewish past.
Continue reading at
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/13/1004154/saving-shanghais-jewish-past-headstone-by-headstone
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Interment records of St. Joseph's Cemetery, Stratford, Perth County, Ontario
St.Joseph's Cemetery
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Coffin Plate of Abigail Edson 1803 ~ 1866
Abigail Edson
Sunday, April 05, 2009
More Sedgwick County Kansas Obits Online
The latest batch of 100 obits can be found at Sedgwick County Kansas obits
To see all my obits try the Obit Records Page
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Coffin Plate of Mary Taylor Brigham 1828 ~ 1912
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
A new King Family Genealogy Book
Lewis and Thomas King were brothers born in Wenhaston Suffolk England to parents James King and Hannah Blanden aka Blanding. In October 1830 when Lewis was 37 and Thomas was 34, the brothers joined a group of men and sailed from England to New York. According to written histories, the men arrived in November 1830.
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