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FYI... I've been away with family for a long week end. This is the
first I've heard about this series on PBS. Perhaps you have been
watching it but just in case, maybe you'd like to catch this last one in
a series tonight on life in New England in 1628 as I hope I will be able
to do.
Later...Nancy
Nancy Cluff Siders
TSFA President and List Admin for:
CLUFF-L, COUNTRYMAN-L, LETSON-L, MCKAY-ELKENNY-L, SACKETT-L, SIDERS-L
To forget one's ancestor is to be a brook without a source,
A tree without a root. ~Chinese proverb
-----Original Message-----
From: CloughGen(a)aol.com [mailto:CloughGen@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 10:44 AM
To: CLOUGH-GENEALOGY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CLOUGH-GEN] Colonial House...
Dear Listers,
PBS has produced another very good reality type series called Colonial
House.
The series takes modern folk back to 1628 where the participants live
life
as new settlers in New England in 1628.
It was a real test of the participants will since the life our ancestors
lived nearly 400 years ago was much more rugged and difficult than we
are ever faced with in modern society. Even for those who are used to
"roughing it" while camping would, in all likelihood, find it difficult
to sustain the 1628 way of life for four months.
These participants had to:
wear the clothing of our early ancestors (quite a challenge to get
accustomed to such coverings and lack of other coverings we are very
used to);
cook over a fire and keep that fire going regardless of the outside
temps;
make a profit for the colony as the early colonists had to do in order
to
finance their trip from their investors;
attend church for a total of six hours on Sunday;
obey the early colonist laws pertaining to attending church (a must in
the
early colonies), keeping their attire appropriate, how they lived in
their
homes, as well as their manner of speech, i.e. no obscenities;
stay within the role they each had to play within the fictitious colony.
The series really brings to the fore how woman today have much freedom.
Our
female ancestors did not enjoy a fraction of the type of freedom we
enjoy
today. Woman were the cooks, cleaners, child bearers, and child
minders. Their whole day was taken up by these duties. They also had
no say in colony affairs.
The men, on the other hand, ruled their households, controlled colony
life,
and worked very hard six days a week (Sunday was the mandatory
observation of the Sabbath).
For those of us interested in our ancestry this PBS series is quite good
at
giving us a look into the lives our ancestors lived and it really brings
home how robust our ancestors must have been to sustain life in the "New
World."
If any of you have the option of viewing this series I highly recommend
it.
Our ancestors truly broke new ground in many ways while creating this
country.
We should all be very grateful for the paths they created and on which
we
enjoy walking today.
Best Wishes,
Sheila Andersen
CLOUGH-GENEALOGY-L owner
CloughGen(a)aol.com
Genealogist
John Clough Genealogical Society
CloughGen(a)aol.com
http://ourworld.cs.com/cloughgenl/
Good morning!
Apparently it is the search engine with links to the data that is being
sold, not the data. An explanation of OneWorldTree (SM) is at the
following site:
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/announce.html#OWT
Later...Nancy
Nancy Cluff Siders
TSFA President and List Admin for:
CLUFF-L, COUNTRYMAN-L, LETSON-L, MCKAY-ELKENNY-L, SACKETT-L, SIDERS-L
To forget one's ancestor is to be a brook without a source,
A tree without a root. ~Chinese proverb
Hi!
The following was sent to another list I'm on & I thought it was worth
sharing in case you are not aware of this plan by Ancestry.com.
Later...Nancy
Nancy Cluff Siders
TSFA President and List Admin for:
CLUFF-L, COUNTRYMAN-L, LETSON-L, MCKAY-ELKENNY-L, SACKETT-L, SIDERS-L
To forget one's ancestor is to be a brook without a source,
A tree without a root. ~Chinese proverb
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