Boring Day
Thunderstorms most of the day which at least scrubbed the air for some pollen relief.
There’s an Invest South of the Cape Verde Islands that might get interesting later this week if it stays South of the dry air pouring off the Sahara.
We aren’t bombing anyone new so far, but the week is young.
I noticed some things when I was looking through the records while doing my searches into family history. Men tended to marry later. A family had a half dozen births on average with 5 survivors. There were significant gaps between births, so the final birth, the one that usually died, was when the mother was nearly 40. The time between the marriage and the birth of the first child was between 7 and 10 months. People starting working at about 12 years old until well into the 20th century.
This was from 1850 to 1950. This wasn’t just my family as I tracked a lot of people who turned out not to be members of my family. The people in immigration tended to spell names phonetically, not copied from the documents of the people entering the country, and all the records I was looking at were handwritten in script. [I’m still trying to figure out how Henry F. became Henrietta on a Census form.]
September 8, 2014 2 Comments
