"What was life like for our ancestors"
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Genealogical facts of names, dates and places - can quickly become very dry and boring.
what make it all come alive and interesting - is coming to really know the person, who they were, what they did, and the world they lived in.
Genealogy becomes so much more when we expand our vision.
Here are some sites that help provide such background information to help us have a more balanced view of our ancestors with respect to the world they lived in.
The focus of most of these sites is the US.
The order is arbitrary
What happend on my birthday:
News and Events Year by Year
Decade by Decade Historical Events
The Nostalgia Machine
Digital History
Music from the
History of the English Language
What life was like . . .
Measuring Worth
Food Time Line
US Population by Decade
Rural vs Urban America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/24/real-surprisingly-comforting-reason-rural-america-is-doomed-decline/
Changing Religious Landscape
Religious Statistics
US History TimeLine
Animated Maps
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