Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Happened on Your Mother's Birthdate?
Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has a fun exercise he asks others to do along with him on Saturday nights. Tonight's fun is to write about what happened on the day our mother was born. We are to answer these questions: What day of the week was your Mother born? Tell us how you found out. What has happened in recorded history on your Mother's birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events. What famous people have been born on your Mother's birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them. Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook or Google+. My mother, Lela Nell Johnston, was born on 21 August 1934. That was a Tuesday. I found it on a website called " What Day of the Week? " Historical events that happened on that date in history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_21]: 1680 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish du...