Podcast 63 - Stories from Genealogy Journeys Cruise 2018

Our passengers on the Genealogy Journeys Cruise 2018 shared some family stories one evening. They are listed here, in this order:


Tina McKillip
Debbie Teed
Jean Hibben
Lynda Osborn
Marilyn Lewis
Melodie Jones
Phyllis Kaylor
Sara Cochran

It was great fun in spite of the noisy environment (we had no control over the "music" playing in the background).

Note: unlike others, this whole podcast is free for the listening. Enjoy.

Podcast 62 - Forestry

Sara Cochran and Jean Wilcox Hibben explore some of the aspects of the lumber business in America, in particular. If your ancestor was involved in this occupation, you may find some of the discussion of interest, including the resources used (listed below). Considering the value of lumber to the building of the country, the forestry business was a mainstay of many households (either because of occupation, or use of the product). Some discussion of word origins, forestry mythology, and Roosevelt's programs are included. Consider the references below.

"Fluming lumber from the Oregon mountains" - Keystone View Co., Publisher, copyright 1899, stereoscope slide retrieved from the Library of Congress

RESOURCES

WPA, CCC:

https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Depression%20Era%20Programs%20-%20Region%206.pdf

The Frozen Logger (Johnny Cash version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUfzDIKGkQI

Paul Bunyan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Paul-Bunyan

http://seducedbyhistory.blogspot.com/2011/09/legend-of-paul-bunyan-and-blue-ox.html

Lumberjacks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack

"The World's Fair load of logs, 36,055 feet," 

"Logs being hauled by one team of horses from Mich. forest to Ontonogan river for the transport to Chicago, Feb. 26, 1893, for exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition." - copyright 1893, Photo by G.A. Werner, copyrighted by estate of Thomas Nester, Detroit, Mich.; retrieved from the Library of Congress for educational purposes only.

Lumber Terminology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy_road

from books:

Barnhart, Robert K., Ed. Chambers Dictionary of Etymology. New York: Chambers, 1988, 2003.

Drake, P. What Did They Mean by That? A Dictionary of Historical and Genealogical Terms

            Old and New. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000.

Funk, Charles Earle. Horsefeathers & Other Curious Words.  New York: Harper & Row

            Publishers, 1958, 1986.

Funk, Wilfred. Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories. New York: Bell Pub., 1978.

Garrison, Webb. What’s in a Word? Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 2000.

Hendrickson, Robert. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, revised and

            expanded ed. New York: Checkmark Books, 1997, 2000.

Mordock, John, & Korach, Myron. Common Phrases and Where they Come from.

            Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2001.

Podcast 61 - The History of Make-up

Jean discusses the history of make-up with partner Sara Cochran. The first portion deals with the history of two cosmetic companies and the second half looks deeper into the history of the use of make-up as well as some of the contents of cosmetics.

Photo: Beauty--Manufactured by R. Wilson & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, lithograph of Strobridge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1869; retrieved from Library of Congress

References are listed below:

Nethercutt: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/21663

https://www.cnet.com/news/a-tour-of-the-nethercutt-museum-and-collection-from-classic-cars-to-self-playing-orchestras/

http://www.classics.com/nthct.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethercutt_Collection

http://www.montrosechristmasparade.com/2011%20Forms/JackandHelenNethercuttBio.pdf

To Visit: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g32655-d674542-Reviews-The_Nethercutt_Collection-Los_Angeles_California.html

https://www.yelp.com/biz/nethercutt-museum-sylmar

The Cosmetics:

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/11/business/j-b-nethercutt-91-cofounder-of-merle-norman-cosmetics-dies.html

https://www.merlenormansignalhill.com/about-us/history.html

Check collections photos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethercutt_Collection 

Max Factor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Factor_Sr.

https://www.maxfactor.com/int/our-story

https://www.allure.com/story/max-factor-comes-back-to-the-us

Product:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Factor

History

https://medusasmakeup.com/pages/history-of-makeup

https://www.webmd.com/beauty/history-makeup

https://people.howstuffworks.com/about-makeup1.htm

https://www.dermstore.com/blog/history-of-makeup/

https://www.byrdie.com/history-of-makeup

https://cosmeticsinfo.org/Ancient-history-cosmetics

Radium

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks

https://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/glowing-complexion.php

To buy the book (hard copy or e-form): https://www.amazon.com/Radium-Girls-Story-Americas-Shining/dp/149264935X

Radon gas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon

Podcast 60 - The Dust Bowl & Depression

Sara Cochran and Jean Hibben discuss the life in the US during the Dust Bowl period and its lead-in to the Depression. Below (from the Library of Congress, photo by Dorothea Lange) is a gathering of farmers in Iowa in 1936:

The resources used in the podcast on the Dust Bowl and Depression:

War pay for soldiers: https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-is-how-much-troops-were-paid-in-every-major-american-war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Ya_Gonna_Keep_%27em_Down_on_the_Farm_(After_They%27ve_Seen_Paree)%3F

financial issues/timelines:

https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-dust-bowl-causes-and-effects-3305689

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm

https://www.denverpost.com/2011/05/12/when-deadly-dirt-devastated-the-southern-plains/

Photos

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dust-bowl-surviving-dust-bowl/

General

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/dust-bowl-cause.htm

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/legacy/

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1583.html

Insect control

https://www.southwestfarmpress.com/livestock/drought-may-favor-grasshoppers

https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/fieldcropsipm/insects/soybean-grasshopper.php

Letters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1936/05/letters-from-the-dust-bowl/308897/

history repeating itself: https://bigthink.com/the-proverbial-skeptic/those-who-do-not-learn-history-doomed-to-repeat-it-really

death codes: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/nchs2012/li-14_minino.pdf

http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd3h.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/hb_cod.pdf

https://familyhistorydaily.com/free-genealogy-resources/icd-codes-death-certificates-genealogy/

BOOKS:

Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

Woody Guthrie, Born to Win, New York: Collier Books, 1965, 1967.

--- Bound for Glory, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968.

Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, New York: Avon Books, 1970.

Woody Guthrie, World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1943

Retrieved from the Library of Congress website

Accompanying podcast is #60 on http://genjourney.podbean,com, to be posted shortly.