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On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum steamboat disaster in New York City decimated their German-American community. At Geneanet, they are honoring the victims and survivors of the tragedy with the family trees of every known passenger. The project is Continue reading The General Slocum Steamship Disaster – June 15 1904
Between the 16th of December, 1811 and February 7, 1812, seven major earthquakes with a magnitude as high as 7.5 on the Richter scale shook the small community of New Madrid, Missouri Territory. There were as many as 1,874 aftershocks Continue reading The New Madrid, Missouri Earthquakes of 1811 & 1812
One hundred eighty-eight years ago, on November 8, 1833, the first recorded deadly passenger train accident took place on the Camden & Amboy Railroad. Only two months had elapsed since the line replaced horses with steam locomotives. The mishap took Continue reading The First Deadly Train Accident – Nov 8, 1833
The following teaser is from The Sept. 30 Pantagraph.com: SPRINGFIELD — What could be among the oldest surviving Chicago city records sit inside a special climate-controlled vault at the Illinois State Archives, largely indecipherable. These are volumes that survived the Continue reading Documents Survived the Great Chicago Fire, but it Requires Special Tech to Read Them
The Camp Fire, in the area of Paradise, California this past year killed 86 people. Now Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea is reporting that they have identified all the bodies but two – and they are hoping to ID those Continue reading The Camp Fire Leaves Two Deceased Individuals Unidentified – Ancestry DNA Databases May Be the Answer
The following excerpts are from an article August 20, 2016 at the chieftain.com website. ST. AMANT, La. — Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped Continue reading Reburying the Dead in Flood-Ravaged Louisiana
The following excerpt is from an August 17, 2016 article posted at TheAdvocate.com: The [Louisiana] State Archives has offered several tips for Louisiana residents trying to save flooded documents and photographs. Wide-spread flooding has left thousands of homes with damage Continue reading The Louisiana State Archives Has Posted Tips For Saving Flood Damaged Documents & Photos
The following excerpt is from newsweek.com The remnants of the worst engineering disaster of 20th-century America sit about an hour’s drive from downtown Los Angeles… Eighty-eight years ago, the St. Francis Dam burst in the middle of a March night, Continue reading An Engineering Disaster on Edge of L.A. Left Nearly 500 Forgotten Deaths
Is this the iceberg that the Titanic hit? Following is a teaser from a fascinating article posted October 17, 2015 at the CNN website: (CNN) The grainy black-and-white photograph shows a pointy iceberg in the middle of a calm sea, Continue reading This May be a Photo of the Iceberg With Which the Titanic Collided
In conjunction with the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association, Jim Jenney has compiled an online database of about 3,000 wrecks in Rhode Island waters… Read an article in the Providence Journal about it. Search the database of Rhode Island Shipwrecks. – Continue reading Rhode Island Shipwrecks – An Amazing New Online Database
The following news release is from the ScotlandsPeople website: A complete record of the deaths of Scottish seafarers from late Victorian times until 1974 is being made available online for the first time through ScotlandsPeople. Among the 14,000 new records Continue reading Deaths of Seamen & Other British Marine Returns of Deaths Go Online
The following excerpt is from the February 8, 2015 edition of the Chicago Tribune: For years, Ted Wachholz had all the evidence he needed to believe that film footage of the 1915 SS Eastland disaster on the Chicago River existed, Continue reading 1915 SS Eastland Disaster Film Footage Surfaces
This last weekend, a seven-alarm warehouse fire in Brooklyn put many public records in danger. It’s now been determined that losses may not have been as bad as were initially feared. The following is from an article by Anemona Hartocollis, Continue reading Last Weekend’s Records Warehouse Fire in Brooklyn Could Have Been Worse
The following excerpt is from an article at the New York Times website. A major fire that threatened to consume one of Russia’s most important libraries was finally put out late Saturday, but scholars are only beginning to assess the Continue reading Russian Library Burns
According to a graphic found at Bloomberg.com, “some 83 aircraft have been declared “missing” since 1948, according to data compiled by the Aviation Safety Network. The list includes planes capable of carrying more than 14 passengers and where no trace Continue reading Interactive Map Showing Where 83 Aircraft Have Disappeared Since 1948