Volume 13 , Issue 11

Duchess Irish Domain

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, Who Was St. Patrick? We know that St. Patrick was the patron saint of Ireland and one of Christianity's most widely known figures. But his life remains somewhat of a mystery. They say that many of the stories traditionally associated with St. patrick, including the famous account of his banishing all the snakes from Ireland, are false. These stories are products of hundreds of years of exaggerated storytelling.

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This Day In History (March 14)

On this day in history, March 14, 1900, Congress rectified the Gold Standard Act. President McKinley signed the Financial Bill using a new gold pen.

Washington, March 14 -- At fourteen minutes before 1 o'clock this afternoon the President affixed his signature to the Financial bill, thus making it a law of the land. Mr. Overstreet of Indiana, who had the bill in charge, arrived at the White House about five minutes before that time, and was shown into the Cabinet room, where he was joined by the President, who after inquiring if the bill had been compared with care affixed his signature to it.

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NW Okie's "The Good Old Days"

[The image on the left is the CRAIG family Crest we found online while searching our CRAIG ancestors.]

While the temperatures in the SW Corner of Colorado, San Juan mountains have been in the the mid-fifties, we hear from Perry, Oklahoma and Roy that he has yell daffodil (Jonquils) in bloom and more of them about to be. Here isn Southwest Colorado we are slowly melting the snow on the mountains and the creeks, streams are running rapidly.

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Ah! Those Were the Days

Feature #5943 -- Ah! Those were the day's my dear mother Ruby Barker Riggins saved that issue for her son who went south. I discovered it years later. That's my graduating class and Lee and E. J. were dear friends of mine, since departed. I was a classmate of Lee's from the first grade at Washington Elementary School. ~Bill Barker

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In Memory of Dixon Palmer

Dale Talkington sent us this obituary of Dixon Palmer last week. You can read more of the Obituary at NewsOK.

ANADARKO [The Daily Oklahoman, March 4, 2011] - Dixon Palmer, an artist, dancer and tepee maker, died Thursday, Kiowa Black Leggings Society spokesman Patrick Redbird said. Palmer, 90, died in Anadarko. He was known for making replicas of historical tepees, and his work was featured at the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko.

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Scotch_Irish Ancestors

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Wolco, OK

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Discover People & Places of Your Irish Ancestors

Do you want or have the desire to discover the people and the places your Irish ancestors called home? Do you have an Ancestry.com account or want to start one?

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30,000 Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French & Other Immigrants In Pennsylvania

This Collection of 30,000 Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French & Other Immigrants In Pennsylvania, by Prof. I. Daniel Rupp, author of several historical works, is a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia. It is chronologically arranged, together with the necessary Historical and other notes. You can view the appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712. Parts are in German, but there is also a translation into English for those who do not read German.

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Fort Sill Indian Agency Cemetery

Dale Talkington sent us this link to Rosemarie and Wahnne Clark's website that they setup to restore and preserve an old Indian burial site at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The Clarks would like to have your reaction and comments about their labor of love. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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The Scotch-Irish: The Thirteenth Tribe

The term Scotch-Irish in Britain is virtually unknown. Only the Protestant communities of Northern Ireland would generally recognize what is meant, though few would accept the designation for themselves, preferring to be described as British or Ulstermen. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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