Even the best laid plans and planning can be upstaged by the weather–and that’s what happened to me.\u00a0 Seems over 300 roads in Kentucky are blocked–mostly by flooding waters running into the Cumberland River on lthe South and into the Ohio on the North–either way, I am blocked from getting in.\u00a0 And nobody wants me in.\u00a0 Except me.<\/p>\n
Same story for Western Tennessee–you might review a map of the meeting of the huge rivers in the central US–if you haven’t viewed them lately.\u00a0 Couldn’t get into any part of Western Tennessee.\u00a0 The Cumberland, the Tennessee, the Ohio, the Missouri, the Arkansas, and the Mississippi converge and merge there.\u00a0 They empty the majority of the states and then flow south to the ocean.<\/p>\n
Since I speak on migration patterns into the Central US, this whole river system is central to that presentation.\u00a0 Very soon, Linda Brinkerhoff and I will complete a book that\u00a0 has been underway for a long time, covering traffic into and through this part of the United States.\u00a0 We have\u00a0amassed some incredible maps and documents that demonstrate these migration patterns and how important they are for tracking really difficult ancestries.\u00a0 We’ll announce it first in these pages–so you will want to stay tuned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I am in Missouri–reliving some parts of my husband Alma’s time in Missouri.\u00a0\u00a0 Springfield and then Nevada, MO.\u00a0 He helped to build a local church house and I am revisiting it and the environs around it.<\/p>\n
Then on to Mid-Continent Public Library, Genealogy Division in Independence, Missouri.\u00a0 Been a while since I visited there and I am excited about the opportunity that presents itself to me.<\/p>\n
I’ll blog about all\u00a0the new stuff that you might enjoy using for your hard-to-find ancestors.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0 http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com<\/a><\/p>\n PS\u00a0 While I was driving around the floods, we missed the 2 May 1611 anniversary of the King James Bible–one of the most significant events in Anglo-American history!\u00a0 The speech patterns in the American South still include the English of that work.\u00a0 Written in colloquial and educated speech of the day, so our ancestors could understand it.\u00a0 Cheers. AE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even the best laid plans and planning can be upstaged by the weather–and that’s what happened to me.\u00a0 Seems over 300 roads in Kentucky are blocked–mostly by flooding waters running into the Cumberland River on lthe South and into the … Continue reading