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Protecting Your Genealogy Data

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When most of your genealogy data is kept on your computer, it can represent years, or even decades of work. You don’t want to lose it to computer breakdowns and thefts. Some of that information may not be able to be reproduced, and you definitely don’t want to have to copy hundreds of pages of handwritten notes back into a new software program. It can happen if you are not careful with your data, though. Here are some steps you can follow to make sure you always have access to your genealogy data, no matter what happens to your computer.

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Great Images of African American History

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The Library of Congress shares some great images of African American history.  A log cabin, a city row house, and a Baptist church. As a list of buildings, it is unremarkable. When I describe these three structures with a focus on their places in history, the list gets much more interesting. They are also: the slave quarters on the Tennessee plantation owned by Pres. Andrew Jackson, the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women and home of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, and the Alabama church led by a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, which was bombed three times between 1956 and 1962.

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The Life Story of Ms Yvonne Busch

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A Legend in the Classroom
Oct 29 1929 – Feb 28 2014

Yvonne Busch, who was a touring musician during her early teenage years but returned to New Orleans and became an influential music teacher in the public school system, died Friday at a relative’s home in Westwego. She was 84. Many of her music students in New Orleans schools would […]

 

Ms Busch documentary premiered at Dillard University

Born in New Orleans in 1929 and raised in the historic Treme section of the city, Ms Yvonne Busch who mastered several brass instruments and the woodwinds, became a touring professional by the age of 12, crisscrossing the United States as a member of the critically acclaimed “International Sweethearts of Rhythm” and the “Swinging Rays of Rhythm” two all-female bands sponsored by the Piney Woods Country Life School, an historic African-American boarding school located in Piney Woods, Mississippi.

Ms. Busch provided the foundation for scores of New Orleans finest musicians, who excelled in careers in jazz, R&B and gospel, by teaching them the rudiments of music.

The Life Story of Ms Yvonne Busch documentary has won international recognition by winning the AVA Platinum Award, Hermes Gold Award and a Bronze Telly Award.

To View On Demand  the documentary for private use only click link below:
A Legend in the Classroom – The Life Story of Ms Yvonne Busch Documentary
 


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Family Health History

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On your family health history or family medical history as it is sometimes called, you will search for relevant health information on each person listed. It is simply a record of diseases and medical conditions that affect your family members. From each of your parents you inherited half of your genetic profile, perhaps including the increased risk of having certain medical conditions. A family medical history can be a tool for your doctor to interpret your family’s disease history and identify patterns that may be important to your health.

Family Health History

Health care professionals have known for a long time that common diseases – heart disease, cancer, and diabetes – and rare diseases – like hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia – can run in families. If one generation of a family has high blood pressure, it is not unusual for the next generation to have similarly high blood pressure. Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents, and other blood relatives can help your doctor predict the disorders to which you may be at risk and take action to keep you and your family healthy. A family medical history cannot predict whether you will be healthy in the future, it will only provide information on your risk, the odds of getting a disease. Additional factors like your weight, amount of exercise, diet and environmental factors will also affect the odds.

For more information from the Surgeon General’s Family Health History Initiative click here.

Your family may want to work together on family health histories for all family members. This is the ideal scenario where everyone is equally vested in the effort. Unfortunately, this is rare. Many times you will have to do a little sleuthing on your own, and it may not be easy. Share with family members why you are working on a family medical history for yourself and your nuclear family; this is a two-way street so be as ready to share your health history as you hope that they will be. If you are adopted, ask your adoptive parents if they have any medical history or concerns about your biological parents.