HeyJaredSerengenity
Connecting the dots in history, genealogy, culture, archaeology and historic grave marker conservation.
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Serengenity: a re-introduction (opens the original)
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Thank you for subscribing and reading Serengenity! I want to re-introduce myself, especially to more recent subscribers.The word SERENGENITY is a portmanteau or made up word derived from two other words; Serendipity and Genealogy. It came about when my cousin and I were making one incredible discovery after another at Union Cemetery. Whenever we looked for one thing, we seemed to stumble onto an even better discovery. After joking around with several made up words, Serengenity stuck and so becam
The Great American Migration (opens the original)
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America is big.It is a greater distance from Dakar, Senegal to Johannesburg, South Africa than the flight from New York’s JFK airport to Dakar, Senegal. I was astounded to learn that trivia while we sat refueling in Dakar. We weren’t even halfway yet. It doesn’t seem possible that Africa is bigger than the Atlantic Ocean, yet there it was. The same sort of revelation hits Europeans about the United States. Why don’t Americans adopt mass transit and electric cars? Well, we have states bigger than
Sleep Little Babies (opens the original)
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Some history writers employ a prompt to find their voice. Others glean old newspapers to dig up a forgotten tale. I use a shovel.1 I found it rusting in a garage with no purpose. I cleaned and oiled it. Its sharp edge is good for cutting the Zoysia sod at Union Cemetery.Good tools, like people, need purpose. Together, the two of us dig up and repair historic grave markers. This is the shovel that would dig up a mystery. The answer was waiting in the 1860 census.KevinThere
Dale and Me - lesson from a serial killer (opens the original)
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This story is not my usual fare of history-mystery and tales inspired from a grave marker. Yet some stories demand to be told. This is one of those. You’ve been warned.Normalcy Bias“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark.” - Ursula K. Le GuinHalf the world suffers from too large an imagination. The other half, lacking in imagination, cannot see in front of their eyes.It is almost too easy for an historian to dredge up examples of over imagination, A
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