Investigators in Philadelphia are exhuming samples from eight bodies buried in a potter’s field this week in the hope that advances in DNA-based sleuthing can help them identify the long-ago victims and perhaps learn how they died. The victims include a 4- to 6-year-old girl found dead in 1962, an infant boy found in 1983 …
Category: Uncategorized
Illuminating the Stories of Brooklynites Through Digitized Directories
Some say as many as one in seven Americans have family roots in Brooklyn, and I expect the newly digitized Brooklyn city directories now available through the Internet Archive will get heavy use from genealogists, historians, authors, journalists, students, and even artists to trace connections to the diverse and ever-changing borough. Title page, Spooner’s Brooklyn Directory 1822. …
George Schweitzer, Longest Serving University of Tennessee Professor, Dies at 99
An excellent collection of pictures of Dr. Schweitzer’s life may be found at: https://tinyurl.com/2nu6wyz3.