Friday 29 September 2017
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Sir Nicholas Winton Saved 669 Children From The Holocaust
I thought I would share this story and video on my blog, as it is a really inspiring story.
He saved 669 children from the Holocaust - now watch the audience when his secret is revealed
Sir Nicholas Winton was born in London in 1909 to Jewish parents. His mother and father had moved to England two years earlier. They changed their German-Jewish surname from Wertheim to Winton in an effort to integrate, and they also had Nicholas baptized after they converted to Christianity.
Nicholas Winton, who later worked as a stock broker, planned to go to Switzerland for a ski holiday in the winter of 1938. But he changed his mind and instead went to Prague to meet a man named Martin Blake, who had asked him for help.
Winton then single-handedly started an organization to help Jewish children threatened with annihilation by the Germans.
He set up his office at a dining table in his hotel room in Wencelas Square in central Prague.
A short time after "Kristallnacht," a massacre of Jewish people in Nazi Germany in November 1938, Winton received word that the United Kingdom would accept refugees under the age of 17. They just needed to have a place to stay and enough money to ensure their eventual return home.
A major obstacle to getting the children to Britain was getting them through the Netherlands, where they would take a ferry to the UK. Despite the horrors of "Kristallnacht," Dutch border guards sent all Jewish refugees back to Germany.
But thanks to the promise from the British government, Winton successfully brought 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain.
Winton's mother helped find families for children, most of whose parents would perish in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The last group of 250 children were scheduled to leave Prague on September 1, 1939. But the train never left. Hitler invaded Poland on the same day, marking the start of World War II.
Only two of the children who would have left on that train survived.
Winton never spoke about what he did for the children until his wife, Grete, found a notebook in their attic 50 years later.
It included names and pictures of the children that Winton saved.
Grete Winton gave the book to a journalist, which led to her husband being invited on a BBC program to thank him for his work.
But what Winton didn't know was that everyone in the studio audience was a person whose life he had saved.
Sir Nicholas Winton later received many honors, including the Czech Republic's highest distinction, the Order of the White Lion.
Winton died in 2015 at the age of 106.
Watch Sir Nicholas Winton's emotional reunion with some of the refugees he saved here:
Source: - http://en.newsner.com/he-saved-669-children-from-the-holocaust-now-watch-the-audience-when-his-secret-is-revealed/about/family
He set up his office at a dining table in his hotel room in Wencelas Square in central Prague.
A short time after "Kristallnacht," a massacre of Jewish people in Nazi Germany in November 1938, Winton received word that the United Kingdom would accept refugees under the age of 17. They just needed to have a place to stay and enough money to ensure their eventual return home.
But thanks to the promise from the British government, Winton successfully brought 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain.
Winton's mother helped find families for children, most of whose parents would perish in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Only two of the children who would have left on that train survived.
Winton never spoke about what he did for the children until his wife, Grete, found a notebook in their attic 50 years later.
It included names and pictures of the children that Winton saved.
But what Winton didn't know was that everyone in the studio audience was a person whose life he had saved.
Sir Nicholas Winton later received many honors, including the Czech Republic's highest distinction, the Order of the White Lion.
Watch Sir Nicholas Winton's emotional reunion with some of the refugees he saved here:
Source: - http://en.newsner.com/he-saved-669-children-from-the-holocaust-now-watch-the-audience-when-his-secret-is-revealed/about/family
Monday 25 September 2017
Found Louis Dagenais In The 1881 Census Of Canada
I found my 2nd great grandfather Louis Dagenais in the 1881 Census Of Canada
Here is the information I learned from the census:
Louis is living with his parents and siblings in Pontiac, Quebec, Canada
Narcisse Dagenais (Father) Age - 36 Birth Year- Abt. 1845
Esther Dagenais (Mother) Age - 33 Birth Year - Abt. 1848
Leon Dagenais Age - 18 Birth Year - Abt. 1863
Esther Dagenais Age - 16 Birth Year - Abt. 1865
Catherine Dagenais Age - 14 Birth Year - Abt. 1867
Narcisse Dagenais Age - 12 Birth Year - Abt. 1869
Margaret Dagenais Age - 10 Birth Year - Abt. 1871
Louis Dagenais Age - 8 Birth Year - Abt. 1873
Celine Dagenais Age - 6 Birth Year - Abt. 1875
Enchene Dagenais Age 4 Birth Year - Abt. 1877
Rose Dagenais Age - 2 Birth Year - Abt 1879
Fred Dagenais Age - 1 Birth Year - Abt. 1880
Narcisse Dagenais (Father) occupation was a farmer. 4
Religion - Catholic
Nationality - French
Here is the information I learned from the census:
Louis is living with his parents and siblings in Pontiac, Quebec, Canada
Narcisse Dagenais (Father) Age - 36 Birth Year- Abt. 1845
Esther Dagenais (Mother) Age - 33 Birth Year - Abt. 1848
Leon Dagenais Age - 18 Birth Year - Abt. 1863
Esther Dagenais Age - 16 Birth Year - Abt. 1865
Catherine Dagenais Age - 14 Birth Year - Abt. 1867
Narcisse Dagenais Age - 12 Birth Year - Abt. 1869
Margaret Dagenais Age - 10 Birth Year - Abt. 1871
Louis Dagenais Age - 8 Birth Year - Abt. 1873
Celine Dagenais Age - 6 Birth Year - Abt. 1875
Enchene Dagenais Age 4 Birth Year - Abt. 1877
Rose Dagenais Age - 2 Birth Year - Abt 1879
Fred Dagenais Age - 1 Birth Year - Abt. 1880
Narcisse Dagenais (Father) occupation was a farmer. 4
Religion - Catholic
Nationality - French
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| 1881 Census Of Canada |
Friday 22 September 2017
Friday 15 September 2017
Friday 8 September 2017
Ghostbusters Skit Video
I thought I would share the Ghostbusters Cosplay video that I did with my nephew Carter Hemphill and niece Katie Hemphill. It stars Katie and I as movie-goers, and is camera work is done by Carter. The video was posted on my YouTube page on Jan 23, 2011
Monday 4 September 2017
"Welcome to Our Family"
In honor of National Sisters’ Day, our friends at British Airways helped us unite two sisters from Texas, for the first time, with their long-lost sister in the UK.
Saturday 2 September 2017
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Create a Gravestone
View on Genea-Musings at http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/06/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-sngf.html
1) Create your own gravestone at http://www.tombstonebuilder.com/. And/or create one for a relative who doesn't have one, or one for an event or significant issue.
2) Share your creation with the genea-sphere in your own blog post, on Facebook or on Google+. Be sure to drop a link in a comment to this post.
There are several other Gravestone generators online - see:
** John Chandler's Tombstone Generator ( http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/)
** Gravestone Caption Generator (http://www.getgreatcodes.com/generators/grave-generator.php/)
** Gravestone Generator (http://www.satisfaction.com/gravestone/)
Here is mine:
1) Create your own gravestone at http://www.tombstonebuilder.com/. And/or create one for a relative who doesn't have one, or one for an event or significant issue.
2) Share your creation with the genea-sphere in your own blog post, on Facebook or on Google+. Be sure to drop a link in a comment to this post.
There are several other Gravestone generators online - see:
** John Chandler's Tombstone Generator ( http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/)
** Gravestone Caption Generator (http://www.getgreatcodes.com/generators/grave-generator.php/)
** Gravestone Generator (http://www.satisfaction.com/gravestone/)
Here is mine:
Friday 1 September 2017
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