Tidbits and Links
Tidbits and Links
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Shave
Signs - remember these fun road signs? Populations of early Tennessee Counties 1800-1830; Weakley Co Pop. 1830-2000; USA pop. 1790-1980. ------------------- NICKNAMES of Girls and Boys first names. ------------------ GENEALOGY - You know your are taking Genealogy too serious if....... ------------------- NAMING
PATTERNS
- Naming Patterns of the 19th Century & Dutch
naming
customs Weakley
County Tennesseeans Know - OR -
You might be a Weakley
Countian if..... SOUTHERNERS
KNOW - The average Southerner knows.....
SOUTHERN SAYINGS & Tips for Northerners in the South 100
YEARS
AGO - how our lives have changed over the past
100 years 1955 -
Comments on prices
of
things in the year 1955 (only 54 yrs
ago, today being 2009) Purchasing
power
of money in the United States from 1774
to 2006 - how
much money would you need in 2006 to have the same
purchasing power of
$500 in year 1774? - you would need $12,890. Social
Security
Numbers - Who knew Grandpa lived in
Montana?? - The first 3 digits of a person's Social
Security Number
tells the State where the person lived when the number
was assigned. States
2
letter Abreviation - just in case you forget 20
Generations
Chart - you have over a million kinfolk GOOD
THINGS
TO KNOW - from using bounce - bee stings &
pennys -
Hydrogen Peroxide - 5 things your cell phone can do -
recognizing a
stroke - warm drink after a meal - Uses for coffee
fileters -
killing mosquitos with listerine - killing fire ant
colony with soda
water - Another 28 Household tips including uses for
Alka Seltzer,
removing crayon marks on walls, remove blood stains on
clothes, remove
burnt food from skillet and lots more.
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STATE ARCHIVES.....site on history of tennessee, military records, etc - check here first http://www.tennessee.gov/TSLA/ Newly added INDEX of death certificates: 1908-1913 - 1914-1916 - __________ Searching for Tennessee deaths 1949 - 2005 - on Shelby County Registers website http://register.shelby.tn.us/ -------------- University of Tennessee Yearbooks online - 1897 thru 2001 - this is really neat! -------------- OLD OCCUPATIONS and what they meant - use your back button to RETURN to Weakley County -- Early maps of US for
genealogy....really good! NATIONAL ARCHIVES online - you can now search the
National
Archives
- new website. More than 50 million records from Civil
War battles to
family
immigration files. Battlefield of Civil War .....NICE EASY SITE http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/tn.html ------------------------
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