I gave an intro to "DNA and Family History" presentation a few weeks ago for our community. I sourced: http://lincolnhillsgenealogy.com/wp-...ne-Berry-1.pdf and some youtube videos including:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-22wBclxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kLUoam8ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOy0v3VGz6I
also website: http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_...mparison_chart
Hoping this may help others with their Family History journey.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Thanks, tailor, for all that information stored in the links. I look forward to studying them!
http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/ho...hout-survivors
I found this in my subscription to [email protected] [Remember_The_Holocaust] <[email protected]
A bit of research gave me International Holocaust Remembrance Day... the 27th of January: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern...emembrance_DayI like this idea:The International Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is thus a day on which we must reassert our commitment to human rights. We must also go beyond remembrance, and make sure that new generations know this history. We must apply the lessons of the Holocaust to today’s world. And we must do our utmost so that all peoples may enjoy the protection and rights for which the United Nations stands. — Message by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for the second observance of the Holocaust Victims Memorial Day on 19 January 2008... a technology coming of age.New Dimensions in Testimony, a project that uses three-dimensional digital projection to enable students to interact virtually with Holocaust survivors, who appear as holograms and respond to questions in real time.
George Santayana said it best: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In light of current events one might add that those who deny the past are likewise cursed.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
I have found a wordpress blog on the holocaust by the author of remember the holocaust. This is the link to that blog: https://holokauston.wordpress.com/20...witz-a-review/.
I also remember an uncle whose surname in Slovakia was Katz, he changed his name to Keen when he came to England. Of course all my relatives died long ago, I regret not having asked them about their past and how they came to England. Now when they are no more I would have so much to ask them!
It's an interesting project. I remember in secondary school a holocaust survivor came to visit us after we had studied the holocaust in English class, adding a personal connection to history reminds people how very near to the present such atrocities are. My mother also used to work with a few holocaust survivors (she was an accountant), but these days there are very few survivors left and children seem totally desensitised to it.Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Too true, Orphan...
I was born after the Blitz, but in my childhood bomb sites were fairly common. As small kids we used to peer through gaps in the corrugated iron fences that were put up to block intruders. There were two such in the street where we lived, one at each end. Eventually the land was cleared of rubble etc, and built on, mostly high-rise flats for rent.
Toward the end of the war during the V1s and V2 Rockets in the late 1940s I was taken by my mother to the village of Silver End. It is a pleasant village in a rural setting, in East Anglia. I wasn't formally evacuated in the last months of the war but moved to Silver End by my mother.
You can read about its history here. I was only 3 years old in 1945, and loved it. I still remember it, and the row of cottages, and my staying there with the couple who lived there: Mr. and Mrs Pollack. The Silver End website: http://www.silverendheritagesociety.co.uk/ contains a lot of information. I remember Mr. Pollack showing me how he could mix colours in a lens to create new colours.
It was from this time that I came to love the countryside. The one thing I remember about the village was its grocer shop which used a system of wires to send payments to a central till. I can't remember what they were called, but you can look them up on this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_carrier. They are not used any more. My memories of Silver End were vivid, that I still remember today.
After the war the Pollacks moved to Finchley in North London, but like so many other friends of the family, I lost touch with them. Their son became a dentist and withdrew two impacted wisdom teeth that I had. He played golf, thats about the sum of my knowledge of them. The last I remember of Mr. Pollack was when he came round to my parents' house and wept after the death of my uncle Sandor in 1950.
My wife and I went to visit my aunt, Babinéni when she was living in a small room in an old people's home in Cricklewood. There was barely room for 2 chairs for visitors by the bed. She seemed lonely and unhappy, despite the fact that she was always cheerful in her life. We didn't stay long but returned to the house we were renting. This was in the late 1990s. My mother moved in with her other son and daughter-in-law shortly afterwards. I don't know what happened to Babinéni after that or how long she lived.
Babinéni hid my uncle in her flat in Czechoslovakia during the war years and they married and both came to Britain after the war. Belabácsi was a tailor and his small workshop off Oxford Street was located near to Savile Road, as discussed in a previous post in this thread.
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It was my mother who held the extended family together, she used to bake cakes and biscuits, right up to near the end of her life. So when she died I lost contact with them all.
See also my latest post in the the thread From My Bookshelves
I still remember quite a lot of Hungarian, until the war ended in 1945 I lived in an entirely Hungarian-speaking household. After the war ended and my parents bought a house in London, so they began speaking English instead, as they they realised I probably should learn English. The war years to 1945 was when I absorbed much of the Hungarian language. But even afterwards I heard Hungarian spoken on the phone and in conversations with Hungarian relatives and friends. But they all addressed me in English.
The Budapest synagogue is on Tobacco Street (Dohany utca). http://www.greatsynagogue.hu/gallery_syn.html
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In the early postwar years when I was still a child, my parents, together with Joci and her husband Sandor, bought a house in Harlesden. It was deliberately large, in case my father's family were found (it didn't happen, sadly). Joci knew many Viennese recipes and taught them to my mother (Joci was a flapper in her youth). For the rest of her life my mother baked cakes - Linzer Torte (from Linz in Austria) and Chocolate Cups, filled with melted chocolate and a drop of plum jam in the bottom, several different kinds of strudel (apple, (grounded nuts) strudel) being the most common, the strudel itself being kept moist.
The Viennese Coffee House spread to other countries, notably to Sweden, where I used to like princesstorta.
The similarity with German can be seen in the word torta (instead of torte).
See the following links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese_coffee_house
https://www.virtualvienna.net/the-ci...istory-vienna/
https://www.wien.gv.at/english/cultu...e-culture.html
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My father was born in Austria-Hungary, the Dual Monarchy. He was born around 1900, and died in 1979. During the First World War he got his call-up papers, but it was found he had a heart-murmer so was turned down.
Does no-one else on LitNet have a parent who was in the Dual Monarchy?
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