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WHAT YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION SHOULD BE

It is the end of the year ... but a new one will be here soon.

So if you are making any resolutions, why not make this one ...

Resolve to join the Harrison County Historical Society today!

It only costs $10-12 per year, and twelve times a year you will see returns in your mailbox or emailbox, in the form of the Harrison County Historical Society's prize-winning newsletter, the Harrison Heritage News.

And to make it easy for you to keep your resolution to sign up today, a handy membership application has been made ready for you to download to your computer right now.

I am sorry to say, we cannot provide any downloadable stamps for you to put on the envelope.

And we seem to be entirely out of downloadable envelopes, too ...

But, hey, we will be sending you stamps on envelopes twelve times in 2017 if you can just take the time to send the society just one stamp, one envelope, one form, and one check (or money order).

Does that seem fair?

I think so.

You may not be able to lose any weight this year, but you just can't lose by ... JOINING TODAY!

So, do join and have a HAPPIER NEW YEAR!

Philip

How fitting!.  2017 will be the Year of the Rooster
(Jan. 28, 2017 - Feb. 15, 2018) in the Chinese lunar calendar.

Santa's WWII Draft Registration

GENEALOGY FUN STUFF

Santa Claus did exist!  And he registered for the draft during WWII.

He must have been living in his summer home, in Saline, Mo, of all places.

The following record was featured in a daily email by Michael John Neill and posted to his Genealogy Tip of the Day blog.

It was found at Ancestry's U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 database (Subscription probably required for access).

Actually, his surname may have been Clause, but his parents must have had a sense of humor (possibly weird?) when they named their little elf.

Other records at Ancestry document that this Santa (1888-1957) was a lifelong resident of Saline County, Missouri, the son of William (1856-1917) and Henrietta S. Clause (1861-1915), that he was married to a gal named Minnie Mabel Hill (1894-1944) in 1912 and had a large brood of children beginning with William Owen (1915-1994) just a few years later.

This Santa died in 1957, which begs the question, just who is it that has been appearing on NORAD radars all these years?  ;-)  Another genealogy problem for the ages!

Full-Page Images of the 1896 Cynthiana Democrat and 1905 Log Cabin Added.

If you haven't seen them before in their full glory, now you can.  The purchase of a bigger scanner means bigger things can be added to the website.  One can now view a total of 66 full-page images of both the 1896 Special Edition of the Cynthiana Democrat and the 1905 Souvenir Supplement of the Log Cabin combined at www.HarrisonCountyKy.US.  Just go to the home page and click on the links to see what people once read over a hundred years ago and which you can still read today.

What Kept People Busy in 1850?

In the effort to fill in the blanks of a genealogy, one part of the record is largely overlooked, the documentation of what kept people busy from day to day. What did people do? How did they make a living? Where or to whom did one go to get a horse shod or a cabinet made?  The answers to those questions with regard to the 1850s have been around for a while, thanks to the efforts of two men named Thomson and Bassett.  Read the article, "What Kept People Busy in 1850?"

We've Moved . . .

Welcome to The County Line, a companion blog to www.HarrisonCountyKy.US.  Announcements concerning the site, recent additions, new databases, new articles, and maybe a little original content not found at the site, will be posted here in the future.

One can keep up with this blog or follow the posting of updates on Twitter at Twitter.com/harrisoncokyus.

I have been busy updating the site, tweaking it a little, proofing the links, and will be adding even more in the near future.  One of those improvements has been to move the site to a new Internet Service Provider (ISP).

For several years now the site has been hosted by a free ISP account I have had with Comcast.net.  The address for the home page looked something like this:

http://home.comcast.net/~harrisoncountykyus/

. . . and the portion above served as the prefix to all of the other pages at the site.

While just typing in "www.HarrisonCountyKy.US" would get you to the home page of the site in a process known as domain forwarding, many of the pages would show the full address, and that address is also what would appear in searches using Google, Bing, Yahoo! and other sites.

So, if you have bookmarked or favorited any pages at HarrisonCountyKy.US, you can either edit them individually in your browser, deleting the prefix described above, or go to the same page using the links provided on the new home page and then bookmarking the page again.

The home page at the new ISP will have a new background and layout, so you will know that you are at the new site of the old site.

And don't forget to delete your old bookmarks, or you will be going nowhere, when we want you to be coming back to . . .

www.HarrisonCountyKy.US

P.S.  I am a newbie to blogging and to Twitter, so please bear with me if any extraneous posts or errors should appear on these pages.  Happy Hunting!