Found a great website run by the Chickasaw Nation... will have to explore it more.... but wanted to post their historical summary here ( Read more... )

Was thinking about this lately and wanted to paste some excerpts from Wikipedia here about the depopulation of American Indians thru disease:

"Many Native American tribes experienced extensive depopulation, averaging 25-50 percent of tribal life lost due to disease. Additionally, singular tribes also neared extinction after facing severely ( Read more... )

SHoF entry... "Atlantis" by Donovan

The first half is spoken and goes thusly...

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The continent of Atlantis was an island ( Read more... )

Found this on a website, and wanted to put some interesting bits in here:

"Historical evidence suggests that there were Muslims within the original, native, Ameri-Indian community and that the first group of immigrant Muslims reached the Americas in 1312 (180 years before Columbus). From Mali and other parts of West Africa, Muslim explorers arrived ( Read more... )

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My parents are in Australia and they sent me the picture below of my mother and a kangaroo ( Read more... )

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From the Newport Daily News:

NEWPORT - D'Elayne Coleman came from Guisborough, Nova Scotia, to Newport on Monday to witness the beginning of excavation work around the Old Stone Mill, the first archaeological dig allowed at the site by the Newport City Council in almost 60 years.

Coleman, as president of the Prince Henry Sinclair Society of North ( Read more... )

So, it turns out I'm related to at least four Mayflower passengers...  Richard Warren, Isaac Allerton, Mary Allerton and daughter Mary Allerton.

My lineage to Richard Warren:
Me - born in Oregon 1965
Dad
Dorothy Wood
Homer Wood
Adelaide Eliza Sperry  1856 in Linn Co., OR 
Cynthia Clark  1811 in VT 
Carpus Clark   1768 in CT 
Esther Gibbs
Sarah ( Read more... )

Some interesting stuff I read on Wikipedia during my lunch break today...

Some have speculated that surviving members of the Knights Templar escaped the purge of their order by French King Philip the Fair in the early 1300's and travelled to Scotland.  Years later, led by the Scottish noble Henry I Sinclair (Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, and ( Read more... )