Cray wrote:
> Are there books written with genealogy in mind that provide
> chronologies of events in the U.S. that would impact ancestor
Not that I've heard about.
> migrations, etc. - such as timings and locations of epidemics, poor
> crop years, military conflicts, etc.?
>
> I've seen very general chronologies, but nothing just for family
> history purposes.
Most Almanacs have a decent-enough overview; anyone who used
Ultimate Family Tree probably has a couple. I've got one for
Louisiana...
Which gets us to: What was useful for Louisiana research just isn't
useful for Maryland or Pennsylvania Research. Most Marylanders don't
need-to-know when the last les filles du roi arrived (and neither do
those from North Louisiana), just as the path a certain tornado or
hurricane took last summer will only impact the genealogy of the
people IN that path. The 1995 horrendous flood of the South Branch
of the Potomac River killed 50 people, ruined 2 or 3 times that many
houses, but folks down in Chattanooga were unaffected (although to
be fair, it was a wretched summer and there were heavy rains from
Key West to Maine east of the mountains, so there were probably
other localized less publicized or less damaging floods. The SB was
covered because it threatened Wa****ngton DC's memorials).
Someone has a chronology of epidemics which was published somewhere,
back sometime before Y2K perhaps as early as 1996; dunno if the
archives will still show it or not.
Bottom line -- you might find something someone else did for a
specific area but for that level detail, someone has to do a lot of
work.
Cheryl
singhals <singhals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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