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Posted: March 29 2007 at 7:04pm | IP Logged Quote JSchaaf
These next few weeks the plan was to do the basics and spend lots of time with Nature Study. I planned on no real history or geography.
(Did you catch that part?? I made the plan not do history? Who am I, making plans??)

Anne-Catherine read So Far From Home: The Diary of an Irish Mill Girl today and we spent some time talking about Ireland, Irish immigrants, famine, worker's rights, mill towns, and on and on. A-C mentions this conversation to Nick over supper. He looks up and says "My great-great grandmother came over from Ireland when she was 16 and worked in the mills".

We're off and running...phone calls to grannie to get information and more google searches are planned for this evening.

Do you have any resources you'd like to share about this topic?? And how best to document all this? I'm thinking a notebook/scrapbook with information we find, narrations of books we read, and pictures that relatives send us.

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What about a power point presentation? Those can be really nice, set to music, etc and fun to do.

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Also, why not try some hand-loom weaving yourselves?

I think the scrapbook idea is great. It will be a family heirloom when you're done, I'm sure.

Check out the Ellis Island website for photos and info on how immigrants came to the USA...if your ancestor came before that, the website to check is www.castlegarden.org.

(PM me for more info on ancestry lookups online...I have a U. S. Census membership to Ancestry.com. It is such fun to see your ancestors listed on census records!)

If you let me know how much of the "Old Country" stuff you'd like to do, and the time frame you're studying in Irish history, I can probably add some resources.

Cool rabbit trail!

(Mine always involve birds. Don't know why.)

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guitarnan wrote:

Check out the Ellis Island website for photos and info on how immigrants came to the USA...if your ancestor came before that, the website to check is www.castlegarden.org.


Didn't we have some excellent suggestions regards immigration a while back in the picture books section?

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guitarnan wrote:
Also, why not try some hand-loom weaving yourselves?


Excellent idea! If nothing else make time for a visit to a good yarn shop and feel what wool feels like versus other natural fibers. They'll probably have at least a spinning wheel sitting out, maybe a handloom if you're lucky!

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