Wed, Feb 3rd - 9:55AM

While none of this is truly scientific, it is one more way to shine a spotlight on a very important date to me - February 2, my birthday. My wife, Kitty, and I celebrated my 66th birthday at Villa Tronco in Columbia, South Carolina. Villa Tronco is on Blanding Street and is owned by relatives of our dear friends Ronnie and Pat Roche. Visiting Villa Tronco is a dining experience you will never forget. Kitty and I will be talking about their Cappuccino Cheesecake for months. Oh, and did I mention their wine and Italian dishes?

Whether our ensuing weather is good or bad, stormy or calm or somewhere in between, I have made plans to have a great time "enjoying life" and loving my family and friends.

I wonder what's in store for Spring?

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Wed, Dec 30th - 9:53AM

“Sufferers’ Land” The “Firelands”

These evocative and descriptive phrases refer to a region in Northern Ohio set aside by the state of Connecticut for “Sufferers” who were burned out of their homes by the British in the Revolution. Part of the Western Reserve, it covers present-day Huron and Erie counties.

After the War of 1812, a flood of emigration erupted out of crowded New England, the result of a pent up desire for new land that had been held in check by the threat of Native Americans defending their homes and the spur of economic hardship engendered by the catastrophic “Year without Summer” of 1816. Most of these pioneers were bound for the Firelands.

Thus began one of the great migrations of American history; a flood of humanity that poured out of New England and settled lands stretching along the southern shores of the Great Lakes from upstate New York to Illinois and across the Mississippi River into Iowa.

These settlers greatly impacted the history of the United States. In the 1850’s, some of them entered Kansas and clashed with the leading edge of another great migration that had settled the South — a tragic foreshadowing of the Civil War. The grandchildren of the settlers of the Old Northwest formed the backbone of the Union Army of the West during that war and made possible the Republican majority that ruled the nation the remainder of the century.

More information here:

http://firelands.wordpress.com/

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Sun, Oct 4th - 11:31PM

September was a great month for my Howard Genealogy site at The Genealogy Tree.

I started several projects:

• Added a section where I provide information and links. My goal is to find Howard surname links to each President (provided there is one) via searchable GEDCOM.
  
  
• Another project is to identify the First Howards in each US State. I will try my best to document them by county and provide links for further research.

And, as if that isn't enough, I am assisting our Howard Cuzzins Forum members find more information about their Howard families. For example, I helped a young man in North Carolina trace his tree back 6 generations.

Stop by and take look at The Genealogy Tree and let me know what you think.

October is going to be a busy, busy month.

Take Care and Happy Howard Hunting!!!!