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Portales sophomore Kiersten Ramirez was still a little disgusted she missed her first chance to close out a doubleheader sweep over Hope Christian.
She didn't waste her second.
Ramirez slapped the 521st pitch of the day to first base, where it snuck under the glove of Emma Sierra to score Simone Laurenz for a 10-9, eight-inning victory Saturday at Wheeler Park.
The host Lady Rams (9-4) claimed the opener 3-2, scoring three times in the final two innings.
Portales' two-run eighth in the nightcap offset Hope Christian junior Faith Romero delivering softball's version of the royal flush — a two-out grand slam, on an 0-2 pitch, to erase an 8-4 deficit.
While Ramirez knew the left-field shot was gone when she saw it come off Romero's bat — "I knew she'd hit it out, it was solid," she said — it was still hard for the Huskies to believe.
"No way," Hope coach Ron Romero said. "I was thinking double and maybe we could get two runs at a time. Grand slam? We'll take that."
The grand slam made the sweep a little more palatable for the Huskies (6-11), who got a learning experience, a storybook rally and even a souvenir. Even through the frustration of losing a lead so quickly, Portales coach Robbie Crowley made sure the home run ball was retrieved and given to Romero.
An inning later, her frustration was knocked away by Ramirez' bat.
"I was just looking for anything, really," Ramirez said. "We had no outs, so base hit or fly ball, we'd be able to score."
Despite the disparity in offense for each game, they were no doubt filled with duels as countless foul cuts led to eight-, nine- and 10-pitch at-bats and the game had numerous delays because players simply fouled off all of the game balls.
Ramirez threw all 266 pitches for Portales in the doubleheader, allowing 11 runs (seven earned) on 10 hits with 16 strikeouts and 10 walks.
Hope Christian split pitching duties between junior Sofia Davis Olague and sophomore Marguertie Chaevez. Olague allowed three runs on six hits in the complete-game opener but was victimized by five runs in three innings of the nightcap. She struck out 10 and walked four.
After tying the opener with two in the eighth, No. 9 hitter Devyn Alvarado led off the ninth for Portales. Crowley told her to just get on base and her teammates would get her home.
Alvarado ended up doing most of the work, tripling to right on a 2-0 pitch. She trotted home four pitches later when Laurenz hit a bloop single to right.
"I'm proud of the girls, and the way they took both games," Crowley said. "You'd rather have those games than two 15-0 games because you don't learn anything from those kind of games."
Portales hosts Ruidoso Tuesday to open District 4-3A play. First pitch is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
First game
Portales 3, Hope Christian 2
Hope Christian 000 200 0 — 2 3 3
Portales 000 002 1 — 3 6 0
Sofia Davis Olague and Kayla Simmons. Kiersten Ramirez and Simone Laurenz. Top hitters — Hope Christian, Simmons 1-2, 2B, RBI; Faith Romero 1-3, 2B. Portales, Laurenz 2-4, RBI; Francis Armijo 1-2, R; Kailee Ramirez 1-3, 2B, RBI; Devyn Alvarado 1-3, 3B, R.
Second game
Portales 10, Hope Christian 9, 8 innings
Hope Christian 102 001 41 — 9 7 6
Portales 304 100 02 — 10 13 2
Marguerite Chavez, Sofia Davis Olague (2), Chavez (5) and Kayla Simmons. Kiersten Ramirez and Simone Laurenz. Top hitters — Hope Christian, Faith Romero, 1-4, HR, BB, 4 RBI; Olague 1-3, 2 BB, RBI; Simmons 2-4. Portales, Mariah Lovato 2-4, 2 RBI, R; Francis Armijo 2-5, 2 2B, 2 R; Ramirez 3-5, 2 R. Records — Hope Christian 6-11, Portales 9-4.


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(AP) Ever since taking office last year as the nation's first Hispanic female governor, New Mexico's Susana Martinez found her family tree scrutinized over whether her grandfather was an illegal immigrant.
Documents obtained by AP, however, show that he was lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a permanent resident in 1918 and became a citizen in 1942, something not even Martinez knew and a discovery that removes a potential trouble spot for someone talked about as an attractive Republican vice presidential prospect for Mitt Romney.
Martinez was surprised at the news, ...
The first-term governor insists she's not interested in and wouldn't accept a spot on the ticket. But resolving the questions lifts a "hot potato off her plate," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"It's been a controversy and it's always mentioned when her name comes up in connection with the vice presidency," he said. "Does it help her? Sure, if Romney has any interest in her and if she has any interest in accepting, if offered."
News accounts about a 1930 census initially fueled the idea that Martinez's paternal grandparents had illegally entered the country. The census used an "AL" to designate that her grandparents were "aliens."
she initially accepted media accounts and acknowledged that it appeared her grandparents had come to the U.S. without immigration documents.
The AP obtained a "certificate of naturalization," dated April 6, 1942, from the National Archives Southwest Region center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Sabato said questions about a candidate or elected official's family history are fair game in politics, and doubts that she would suffer much damage even if her family had entered the country illegally.
"Maybe it would be more fair if everybody were subjected to the same scrutiny," he said.
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You mean Obama. Too many people with their heads in the sand to go there.
Now that Rubio has excluded himself from the VP by getting a stiff FEC fine, Martinez is next up on the pile.
They used the whole illegal alien grandfather against her when she was trying to keep illegals from getting driver's licenses.
This matter of eligibility is clearly simmering on the back burner of the liberal mindset. Believe me, Sabato is no conservative.
Martinez for Veepee!
Earned square and honestly like most people back then were committed to do.
And he still had to wait years to become a full citizen!
They scourer "Dreams of My Father" when it comes to Oblamer.
They scourer "Dreams from My Father" when it comes to Oblamer.
Thanks for posting this.
"New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez threw cold water on speculation that she could be the running mate for the Republican presidential nominee, telling the Albuquerque Journal Sunday that family concerns would keep her in New Mexico."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/new-mexico-gov-martinez-says-no-to-vp-speculation/#ixzz1tMuMPZpp
And I agree. Thanks for posting this.
Help me out here.... why would anyone possibly care if her grandparents came here legally or not???
Martinez is NBC. Rubio is not. Therein lies the catch. Wish I could explain it better, but others here are much more qualified and knowledgeable.
In light of the Palin precedent, she should say, "no thanks," and run on her own merits in 2016.
I had no idea you were the final authority on who is NBC.
So pray tell us, is Obama NBC? His father was never a US citizen. Would you please rule on his NBC status so we can depose him? Or are you going to leave it to the US congress who has no problem with it obviously, and SCOTUS is not interested in taking on the case.
18 Supreme Court justices agreed. Obama is NOT an NBC.
Not really sure why you want to pick a fight with me. Can you explain? Martinez is a NBC, Rubio is not. NBC is required to be POTUS. I am not the final authority. The Constitution is.
Not meaning to pick a fight with you. I am just tired of conservatives attacking their own. Have you ever seen a liberal or a democrat attack Obama's NBC status? Only conservatives display this self-destructive trait of eating their own.
Here we have Obama, with a fake birth certificate parading around as POTUS for 3.5 years. Obviously the powers that be are giving him NBC status. Your thinking otherwise and mine certain he is not NBC does not address reality on the ground. Obama has been obviously accepted as NBC by congress and courts. If that is so, I will give a pass to any good republican who has an authentic birth certificate proving he/she was born on US soil. That includes Rubio & Jindal, both good republicans and 1000 times better than Obama, Reid or Pelosi as leaders.
Then I'll ask again. If she's NBC, who cares if her grandfather was here legally or not?
There's a difference between "attacking their own" and standing up for the Constitution. And second, nobody has given Obama NBC status. The powers that be are ignoring and/or trampling on the Constitution.
One could say that they wanted to confer eligibility on Zero, however. At the very least, the timing of their legislative hijinks is highly suspect.
Reply to number 18.
If you give Rubio and Jindal a pass because Obama is ineligible, where does it end? Whats next? Anchor babies? Al Queda kids? How bout all those Palestinians moving to the US via Obama.
It ends by defeating Obama, Reid majority leadership & keeping the house. I am most worried about my college age kid's economic future than any other issue. If no jobs, then anchor babies won't matter. Mexico grew faster than US recently. There is a NEGATIVE flow of illegals back to Mexico.
I only deal with reality as it exists on the ground. Not my wishful thinking. You and I do not get to decide what is constitutional. It is the congress and SCOTUS. The sooner we get it, the better we will be. That does not mean you can not vote your conscience. But it is time to NOT waste time on issues which are settled. Such as Obama's presidential qualifications. Let us spend our energy on denying him 2nd term instead of pontificating on NBC status of Rubio or Jindal. Keeping proper priorities front and center is the smarter move.
PS: You all know as much as I on this point. I'm no expert. I just find myself reading whatever I can find on the subject of NBC.
Our previous governor, Bill Richardson made sure that illegals could get driver's licenses legally and Governor Martinez tried to change that. The liberals tried to shame her because they told her that her grandfather was an illegal too. If she had known this at that time she could have shut them up.
Another reason, is that she has been mentioned as a vice presidential pick and unlike Obama whose citizenship and past is ignored, the news media bought into what the liberal NMexicans brought up for a gotcha and found that, low and behold, her grandfather actually came here legally and then became a citizen.
I'm just surprised that they didn't just drop it when they found out.
Well, this isn't technically true. This is why the first amendment preserves the right for a redress of grievances, and why the amendment process is voted on and/or ratified by the states.
But it is time to NOT waste time on issues which are settled. Such as Obamas presidential qualifications.
Obama's presidential qualifications are NOT settled, except for being ineligible for office. As I said, the powers that be are ignoring the Constitution on this issue. Just because they are doing this is not a reason for us to ignore it too. If we don't fight for what's right, then more Constitutional rights will be taken away.
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For example, Douglas Island was named by Capt. George Vancouver in 1794 to honor Bishop John Douglas of Salisbury, England, the editor of Captain Cook's final journal. Then William Dall named Marmion Island on the southern tip of Douglas Island from a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott. Marmion was the home of the Douglas clan. Hence, we have Douglas Island, Salsibury Point, Point Bishop and Marmion Island.
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For those interested in place names, I highly recommend a book that I consider one of the best books ever published about Alaska. It is "A Dictionary of Alaska Place Names," by Donald Orth, Geological Survey Professional Paper 567, first published in 1967 and available in Juneau libraries.
A primary source is "The Alaska Travel Journal of Archibald Menzies, 1793-1794" with an introduction and annotation by Wallace M. Olson and a list of the botanical collections by John F. Thilenius, University of Alaska Press, 1993. Menzies was in the longboat that visited the Juneau area twice in 1794.
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A PHYSICIAN, as we have seen, got the better of the demon in Mrs. Shchapoff's case, at least while the lady was under his care. Really these disturbances appear to demand the attention of medical men. If the whole phenomena are caused by imposture, the actors, or actresses, display a wonderful similarity of symptoms and an alarming taste for fire-raising. Professor William James, the well-known psychologist, mentions ten cases whose resemblances "suggest a natural type," and we ask,
>[1 S.P.R. Proceedings, vol. xii., p. 7.]<
All this was printed in the London papers, and, on 15th November, The Daily Telegraph and Daily News published Emma's confession that she wrought by sleight of hand and foot. On 17th November, Mr. Hughes went from Cambridge to investigate. For some reason investigation never begins till the fun is over. On the 9th the girl, now in a very nervous state (no wonder!) had been put under the care of a Dr. Mackey. This gentleman and Miss Turner said that things had occurred since Emma came, for which they could not account. On 13th November, however, Miss Turner, looking out of a window, spotted Emma throwing a brick, and pretending that the flight of the brick was automatic. Next day Emma confessed to her tricks, but steadfastly denied that she had cheated at Woods Farm, and Weston Lullingfield, where she had also been. Her evidence to this effect was so far confirmed by Mrs. Hampson of Woods Farm, and her servant, Priscilla Evans, when examined by Mr. Hughes. Both were "quite certain" that they saw crockery rise by itself into air off the kitchen table, when Emma was at a neighbouring farm, Mr. Lea's. Priscilla also saw crockery come out of a cupboard, in detachments, and fly between her and Emma, usually in a slanting direction, while Emma stood by with her arms folded. Yet Priscilla was not on good terms with Emma. Unless, then, Mrs. Hampson and Priscilla fabled, it is difficult to see how Emma could move objects when she was "standing at some considerable distance, standing, in fact, in quite another farm".
Similar evidence was given and signed by Miss Maddox, the schoolmistress, and Mr. and Mrs. Lea. On the other hand Mrs. Hampson and Priscilla
Only one thing is certain: Emma was at last caught in a cheat. This discredits her, but a man who cheats at cards may hold a good hand by accident. In the same way, if such wonders can happen (as so much world-wide evidence declares), they may have happened at Woods Farm, and Emma, "in a very nervous state," may have feigned then, or rather did feign them later.
The question for the medical faculty is: Does a decided taste for wilful fire-raising often accompany exhibitions of dancing furniture and crockery, gratuitously given by patients of hysterical temperament? This is quite a normal inquiry. Is there a nervous malady of which the symptoms are domestic arson, and amateur leger-de-main? The complaint, if it exists, is of very old standing and wide prevalence, including Russia, Scotland, New England, France, Iceland, Germany, China and Peru.
As a proof of the identity of symptoms in this malady, we give a Chinese case. The Chinese, as to diabolical possession, are precisely of the same opinion as the inspired authors of the Gospels. People are "possessed," and, like the woman having a spirit of divination in the Acts of the Apostles, make a good thing out of it. Thus Mrs. Ku was approached by a native Christian. She became rigid and her demon, speaking through her, acknowledged the Catholic verity, and said that if Mrs. Ku were converted he would have to leave. On recovering her everyday consciousness, Mrs. Ku asked what Tsehwa, her demon, had said. The Christian told her, and perhaps she would have deserted her erroneous courses, but her fellow-villagers implored her to pay homage to the demon. They were in the habit of resorting to it for medical advice (as people do to Mrs. Piper's demon in the United States), so Mrs. Ku decided to remain in the business.2 The parallel to the case in the Acts is interesting
>[2 Demon Possession in China, p. 399. By the Rev. John L. Nevius, D.D. Forty years a missionary in China. Revel, New York, 1894.]<
Mr. Chang, of that ilk (Chang Chang Tien-ts), was a man of fifty-seven, and a graduate in letters. The ladies of his family having accommodated a demon with a shrine in his house, Mr. Chang said he "would have none of that nonsense". The spirit then entered into Mrs. Chang, and the usual fire-raising began all over the place. The furniture and crockery danced in the familiar way, and objects took to disappearing mysteriously, even when secured under lock and key. Mr. Chang was as unlucky as Mr. Chin. At his house "doors would open of their own accord, footfalls were heard, as of persons walking in the house, although no one could be seen. Plates, bowls and the tea-pot
>[3 Translated from report of Hsu Chungki, Nevius, p. 61.]<
Mrs. Chang now tried the off chance of there being something in Christianity, stayed with a native Christian (the narrator), and felt much better. She could enjoy her meals, and was quite a new woman. As her friend could not go home with her, Mrs. Fung, a native Christian, resided for a while at Mr. Chang's; "comparative quiet was restored," and Mrs. Fung retired to her family.
The symptoms returned; the native Christian was sent for, and found Mr. Chang's establishment full of buckets of water for extinguishing the sudden fires. Mrs. Chang's daughter-in-law was now possessed, and "drank wine in large quantities, though ordinarily she would not touch it". She was staring and tossing her arms wildly; a service was held, and she soon became her usual self.
In the afternoon, when the devils went out of the ladies, the fowls flew into a state of wild excitement, while the swine rushed furiously about and tried to climb a wall.
The family have become Christians, the fires have ceased; Mr. Chang is an earnest inquirer, but opposed, for obvious reasons, to any public profession of our religion.4
>[4 Nevius, pp. 403 406]<
In Mr. Niu's case "strange noises and rappings were frequently heard about the house. The buildings were also set on fire in different places in some mysterious way." The Christians tried to convert Mr. Niu, but as the devil now possessed his female slave, whose success in fortune-telling was extremely lucrative, Mr. Niu said that he preferred to leave well alone, and remained wedded to his idols.5
>[5 Op. Cit., p. 415. There are other cases in Mr. Denny's Folklore of China.]<
We next offer a recent colonial case, in which the symptoms, as Mr. Pecksniff said, were "chronic".
On 13th February, 1888, Mr. Walter Hubbell, an actor by profession, "being duly sworn" before a Notary Public in New York, testified to the following story:
In 1879 he was acting with a strolling company, and came to Amherst, in Nova Scotia. Here he heard of a haunted house, known to the local newspapers as "The Great Amherst Mystery". Having previously succeeded in exposing the frauds of spiritualism Mr. Hubbell determined to investigate the affair of Amherst. The haunted house was inhabited by Daniel Teed, the respected foreman in a large shoe factory. Under his roof were Mrs. Teed, "as good a woman as ever lived"; little Willie, a baby boy; and Mrs. Teed's two sisters, Jennie, a very pretty girl, and Esther, remarkable for large grey eyes, pretty little hands and feet, and candour of expression. A brother of Teed's and a brother of Mrs. Cox made up the family. They were well off, and lived comfortably in a detached cottage of two storys.
It began when Jennie and Esther were in bed one
Next evening Dr. Carritte arrived, and the bolster flew at his head, and then went back again under Esther's. While paralysed by this phenomenon, unprecedented in his practice, the doctor heard a metal point scribbling on the wall. Examining the place whence the sound proceeded, he discovered this inscription:
Esther Cox! You are
The clergy now investigated the circumstances, which they attributed to electricity. "Even the most exclusive class" frequented Mr. Teed's house, till December, when Esther had an attack of diphtheria. On recovering she went on to visit friends in Sackville, New Brunswick, where nothing unusual occurred. On her return the phenomena broke forth afresh, and Esther heard a voice proclaim that the house would be set on fire. Lighted matches then fell from the ceiling, but the family extinguished them. The ghost then set a dress on fire, apparently as by spontaneous combustion, and this kind of thing continued. The heads of the local fire-brigade suspected Esther of these attempts at arson, and Dr. Nathan Tupper suggested that she should be flogged. So Mr. Teed removed Esther to the house of a Mr. White.
In about a month "all," as Mrs. Nickleby's lover said, "was gas and gaiters". The furniture either flew about, or broke into flames. Worse, certain pieces of iron placed as an experiment on Esther's lap "became too hot to be handled with comfort," and then flew away.
Mr. Hubbell himself now came on the scene, and, not detecting imposture, thought that "there was money in it". He determined to "run" Esther as a powerful attraction, he lecturing, and Esther sitting on the platform.
It did not pay. The audience hurled things at Mr. Hubbell, and these were the only volatile objects. Mr. Hubbell therefore brought Esther back to her family at Amherst, where, in Esther's absence, his umbrella and a large carving knife flew at him with every appearance of malevolence. A great arm-chair next charged at him like a bull, and to say that Mr. Hubbell was awed "would indeed seem an inadequate expression of my feelings". The ghosts then thrice undressed little Willie in public, in derision of his tears and outcries. Fire-raising followed, and that would be a hard heart which could read the tale unmoved. Here it is, in the simple eloquence of Mr. Hubbell:
"This was my first experience with Bob, the demon, as a fire-fiend; and I say, candidly, that until I had had that experience I never fully realised what an awful calamity it was to have an invisible monster, somewhere within the atmosphere, going from place to place about the house, gathering up old newspapers into a bundle and hiding it in the basket of soiled linen or in a closet, then go and steal matches out of the match-box in the kitchen or somebody's pocket, as he did out of mine, and after kindling a fire in the bundle, tell Esther that he had started a fire, but would not tell where; or perhaps not tell her at all, in which case the first intimation we would have was the smell of the smoke pouring through the house, and then the most intense excitement, everybody running with buckets of water. I say it was the most truly awful calamity that could possible befall any family, infidel or Christian, that could be conceived in the mind of man or ghost.
"And how much more terrible did it seem in this little cottage, where all were strict members of church, prayed, sang hymns and read the Bible. Poor Mrs. Teed!"
On Mr. Hubbell's remarking that the cat was not tormented, "she was instantly lifted from the floor to a height of five feet, and then dropped on Esther's back.... I never saw any cat more frightened; she ran out into the front yard, where she remained for the balance (rest) of the day." On 27th June " a trumpet was heard in the house all day".
The Rev. R. A. Temple now prayed with Esther, and tried a little amateur exorcism, including the use of slips of paper, inscribed with Habakkuk ii. 3. The ghosts cared no more than Voltaire for ce coquin d'Habacac.
Things came to such a pass, matches simply raining all round, that Mr. Teed's landlord, a Mr. Bliss, evicted Esther. She went to a Mr. Van Amburgh's, and Mr. Teed's cottage was in peace.
Some weeks later Esther was arrested for incendiarism in a barn, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, but was soon released in deference to public opinion. She married, had a family; and ceased to be a mystery.
This story is narrated with an amiable simplicity,
>[6 The Great Amherst Mystery, by Walter Hubbell. Brentano, New York, 1882. I obtained some additional evidence at first hand published in Longman's Magazine.]<
After these modern cases of disturbances, we may look at a few old, or even ancient examples. It will be observed that the symptoms are always of the same type, whatever the date or country. The first is Gaelic, of last century.
>[7 The sources for this tale are two Gaelic accounts, one of which is printed in the Gael, vol. vi., p. 142, and the other in the Glenbard Collection of Gaelic Poetry, by the Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair, p. 297 ff. The former was communicated by Mr. D.C. Macpherson from local tradition; the latter was obtained from a tailor, a native of Lochaber, who emigrated to Canada when about thirty years of age. When the story was taken down from his lips in 1885, he was over eighty years old, and died only a few months later.]<
It is fully a hundred years ago since there died in Lochaber a man named Donald Ban, sometimes called "the son of Angus," but more frequently known as Donald Ban of the Bocan. This surname was derived from the troubles caused to him by a bocan a goblin many of whose doings are preserved in tradition.
Donald drew his origin from the honourable house of Keppoch, and was the last of the hunters of Macvic-Ronald. His home was at Mounessee, and later at Inverlaire in Glenspean, and his wife belonged to the MacGregors of Rannoch. He went out with the Prince, and was present at the battle of Culloden. He fled from the field, and took refuge in a mountain shieling, having two guns with him, but only one of them was loaded. A company of soldiers came upon him there, and although Donald escaped by a back window, taking the empty gun with him by mistake, he was wounded in the leg by a shot from his pursuers. The soldiers took him then, and conveyed him to Inverness, where he was thrown into prison to await his trial. While he was in prison he had a dream; he saw himself sitting and drinking with Alastair MacCholla, and Donald MacRonald Vor. The latter was the man of whom it was said that he had two hearts; he was taken prisoner at Falkirk and executed at Carlisle. Donald was more fortunate than his friend, and was finally set free.
It was after this that the bocan began to trouble him; and although Donald never revealed to any man the secret of who the bocan was (if indeed he knew it himself), yet there were some who professed to know that it was a "gillie" of Donald's who was killed at Culloden. Their reason for believing this was that on one occasion the man in question had
It was on the hill that Donald first met with the bocan, but he soon came to closer quarters, and haunted the house in a most annoying fashion. He injured the members of the household, and destroyed all the food, being especially given to dirtying the butter (a thing quite superfluous, according to Captain Burt's description of Highland butter). On one occasion a certain Ronald of Aberardair was a guest in Donald's house, and Donald's wife said, "Though I put butter on the table for you tonight, it will just be dirtied". "I will go with you to the butter-keg," said Ronald, "with my dirk in my hand, and hold my bonnet over the keg, and he will not dirty it this night." So the two went together to fetch the butter, but it was dirtied just as usual.
Things were worse during the night and they could get no sleep for the stones and clods that came flying about the house. "The bocan was throwing things out of the walls, and they would hear them rattling at the head of Donald's bed." The minister came (Mr. John Mor MacDougall was his name) and slept a night or two in the house, but the bocan kept away so long as he was there. Another visitor, Angus MacAlister Ban, whose grandson told the tale, had more experience of the bocan's reality. "Something seized his two big toes, and he could not get free any more than if he had been caught by the smith's tongs. It was the bocan, but he did nothing more to him." Some of the clergy, too, as well as laymen of every rank, were witnesses to the pranks which the spirit carried on, but not even Donald himself ever saw him in any shape whatever. So famous did the affair become that Donald was nearly ruined by entertaining all the curious strangers who came to see the facts for themselves.
In the end Donald resolved to change his abode, to see whether he could in that way escape from the visitations. He took all his possessions with him except a harrow, which was left beside the wall of the house, but before the party had gone far on the road the harrow was seen coming after them. "Stop, stop," said Donald; "if the harrow is coming after us, we may just as well go back again." The mystery of the harrow is not explained, but Donald did return to his home, and made no further attempt to escape from his troubles in this way.
If the bocan had a spite at Donald, he was still worse disposed towards his wife, the MacGregor woman. On the night on which he last made his presence felt, he went on the roof of the house and cried, "Are you asleep, Donald Ban?" "Not just now," said Donald. "Put out that long grey tether, the MacGregor wife," said he. "I don't think I'll do that to-night," said Donald. "Come out yourself, then," said the bocan, "and leave your bonnet." The good-wife, thinking that the bocan was outside and would not hear her, whispered in Donald's ear as he was rising, "Won't you ask him when the Prince will come?" The words, however, were hardly out of her mouth when the bocan answered
Another account says that at this last visit of the bocan, he was saying that various other spirits were along with him. Donald's wife said to her husband: "I should think that if they were along with him they would speak to us"; but the bocan answered, "They are no more able to speak than the sole of your foot". He then summoned Donald outside as above. "I will come," said Donald, "and thanks be to the Good Being that you have asked me." Donald was taking his dirk with him as he went out, but the bocan said, "leave your dirk inside, Donald, and your knife as well".
Donald then went outside, and the bocan led him on through rivers and a birch-wood for about three miles, till they came to the river Fert. There the bocan pointed out to Donald a hole in which he had hidden some plough-irons while he was alive. Donald proceeded to take them out, and while doing so the two eyes of the bocan were causing him greater fear than anything else he ever heard or saw. When he had got the irons out of the hole, they went back to Mounessie together, and parted that night at the house of Donald Ban.
Donald, whether naturally or by reason of his ghostly visitant, was a religious man, and commemorated his troubles in some verses which bear the name of "The Hymn of Donald Ban of the Bocan". In these he speaks of the common belief that he had done something to deserve all this annoyance, and makes mention of the "stones and clods" which flew about his house in the night time. Otherwise the hymn is mainly composed of religious sentiments, but its connection with the story makes it interesting, and the following is a literal translation of it.
O God that created me so helpless,
Little wonder though I am thoughtful
Little wonder though I am troubled,
Although I am in trouble at this time,
O God, make me mindful
The bocan was not the only inhabitant of the spirit-world that Donald Ban encountered during his lifetime. A cousin of his mother was said to have been carried off by the fairies, and one night Donald saw him among them, dancing away with all his might. Donald was also out hunting in the year of the great snow, and at nightfall he saw a man mounted on the back of a deer ascending a great rock. He heard the man saying, "Home, Donald Ban," and fortunately he took the advice, for that night there fell eleven feet of snow in the very spot where he had intended to stay.
We now take two modern Icelandic cases, for the purpose of leading up to the famous Icelandic legend of Grettir and Glam the Vampire, from the Grettis Saga. It is plain that such incidents as those in the two modern Icelandic cases (however the effects were produced) might easily be swollen into the prodigious tale of Glam in the course of two or three centuries, between Grettir's time and the complete formation of his Saga.
>[8 John Arnason, in his Icelandic Folklore and Fairy Tales (vol. i., p. 309), gives the account of this as written by the Sheriff Hans Wium in a letter to Bishop Haldorr Brynjolfsson in the autumn of 1750.]<
The sheriff writes: "The Devil at Hjalta-stad was outspoken enough this past winter, although no one saw him. I, along with others, had the dishonour to hear him talking for nearly two days, during which he addressed myself and the minister, Sir Grim, with words the like of which 'eye hath not seen nor ear heard'. As soon as we reached the front of the house there was heard in the door an iron voice saying: 'So Hans from Eyrar is come now, and wishes to talk with me, the idiot'. Compared with other names that he gave me this might be considered as flattering. When I inquired who it was that addressed me with such words, he answered in a fierce voice, 'I was called Lucifer at first, but now I am called Devil and Enemy'. He threw at us both stones and pieces of wood, as well as other things, and broke two windows in the minister's room. He spoke so close to us that he seemed to be just at our side. There was an old woman there of the name of Opia, whom he called his wife, and a 'heavenly blessed soul,' and asked Sir Grim to marry them, with various other remarks of this kind, which I will not recount.
"I have little liking to write about his ongoings, which were all disgraceful and shameful, in accordance with the nature of the actor. He repeated the
"When we went to bed in the evening he shouted fiercely in the middle of the floor, 'On this night I shall snatch you off to hell, and you shall not rise up out of bed as you lay down'. During the evening he wished the minister's wife good-night. The minister and I continued to talk with him during the night; among other things we asked him what kind of weather it was outside. He answered: 'It is cold, with a north wind'. We asked if he was cold. He answered: 'I think I am both hot and cold'. I asked him how loud he could shout. He said, 'So loud that the roof would go off the house, and you would all fall into a dead faint'. I told him to try it. He answered: 'Do you think I am come to amuse you, you idiot?' I asked him to show us a little specimen. He said he would do so, and gave three shouts, the last of which was so fearful that I have never heard anything worse, and doubt whether I ever shall. Towards daybreak, after he had parted from us with the usual compliments, we fell asleep.
"Next morning he came in again, and began to waken up people; he named each one by name, not forgetting to add some nickname, and asking whether so-and-so was awake. When he saw they were all awake, he said he was going to play with the door now, and with that he threw the door off its hinges with a sudden jerk, and sent it far in upon the floor. The strangest thing was that when he threw anything it went down at once, and then went back to its place again, so it was evident that he either went inside it or moved about with it.
"The previous evening he challenged me twice to come out into the darkness to him, and this in an angry voice, saying that he would tear me limb from limb. I went out and told him to come on, but nothing happened. When I went back to my place and asked him why he had not fulfilled his promise, he said, 'I had no orders for it from my master'. 1808. The narrative is as follows:
He asked us whether we had ever heard the like before, and when we said ' Yes,' he answered, 'That is not true: the like has never been heard at any time'. He had sung 'The memory of Jesus' after I arrived there, and talked frequently while the word of God was being read. He said that he did not mind this, but that he did not like the 'Cross-school Psalms,' and said it must have been a great idiot
In another work9 where the sheriff's letter is given with some variations and additions, an attempt is made to explain the story. The phenomena were said to have been caused by a young man who had learned ventriloquism abroad. Even if this art could have been practiced so successfully as to puzzle the sheriff and others, it could hardly have taken the door off its hinges and thrown it into the room. It is curious that while Jon Espolin in his Annals entirely discredits the sheriff's letter, he yet gives a very similar account of the spirit's proceedings.
>[9 Huld, part 3, p. 25, Keyyavik, 1893.]<
A later story of the same kind, also printed by Jon Arnason (i., 3II), is that of the ghost at Garpsdal as related by the minister there, Sir Saemund, and written down by another minister on 7th June, 1808. The narrative is as follows:
In Autumn, 1807, there was a disturbance by night in the outer room at Garpsdal, the door being smashed. There slept in this room the minister's men-servants, Thorsteinn Gudmundsson, Magnus Jonsson, and a child named Thorstein. Later, on 16th November, a boat which the minister had lying at the sea-side was broken in broad daylight, and although the blows were heard at the homestead yet no human form was visible that could have done this. All the folks at Garpsdal were at home, and the young fellow Magnus Jonsson was engaged either at the sheep-houses or about the homestead; the spirit often appeared to him in the likeness of a woman. On the 18th of the same month four doors of the sheep-houses were broken in broad daylight, while the minister was marrying a couple in the church; most of his people were present in the church, Magnus being among them. That same day in the evening this woman was noticed in the sheep-houses; she said that she wished to get a ewe to roast, but as soon as an old woman who lived at Garpsdal and was both skilled and wise (Gudrun Jons-dottir by name) had handled the ewe, its struggles ceased and it recovered again. While Gudrun was handling the ewe, Magnus was standing in the door of the house; with that one of the rafters was broken, and the pieces were thrown in his face. He said that the woman went away just then. The minister's horses were close by, and at that moment became so scared that they ran straight over smooth ice as though it had been earth, and suffered no harm.
On the evening of the 20th there were great disturbances, panelling and doors being broken down in various rooms. The minister was standing in the house door along with Magnus and two or three girls when Magnus said to him that the spirit had gone
On the 28th the on-goings of the spirit surpassed themselves. In the evening a great blow was given on the roof of the sitting-room. The minister was inside at the time, but Magnus with two girls was out in the barn. At the same moment the partition between the weaving-shop and the sitting-room was broken down, and then three windows of the room itself one above the minister's bed, another above his writing-table, and the third in front of the closet door. A piece of a table was thrown in at one of these, and a spade at another. At this the household ran out of that room into the loft, but the minister sprang downstairs and out; the old woman Gudrun who was named before went with him, and there also came Magnus and some of the others. Just then a vessel of wash, which had been standing in the kitchen, was thrown at Gudrun's head. The minister then ran in, along with Magnus and the girls, and now everything that was loose was flying about, both doors and splinters of wood. The minister opened a room near the outer door intending to go in there, but just then a sledge hammer which lay at the door was thrown at him, but it only touched him on the side and hip, and did him no harm. From there the minister and the others went back to the sitting-room, where everything was dancing about, and where they were met with a perfect volley of splinters of deal from the partitions. The minister then fled, and took his wife and child to Muli, the next farm, and left them there, as she was frightened to death with all this. He himself returned next day.
On the 8th of December, the woman again made her appearance in broad daylight. On this occasion she broke the shelves and panelling in the pantry, in presence of the minister, Magnus, and others. According to Magnus, the spirit then went out through the wall at the minister's words, and made its way to the byre-lane. Magnus and Gudrun went after it, but were received with throwings of mud and dirt. A stone was also hurled at Magnus, as large as any man could lift, while Gudrun received a blow on the arm that confined her to her bed for three weeks.
On the 26th of the month the shepherd, Einar Jonsson, a hardy and resolute fellow, commanded the spirit to show itself to him. Thereupon there came over him such a madness and frenzy, that he had to be closely guarded to prevent him from doing harm to himself. He was taken to the house, and kept in his bed, a watch being held over him. When he recovered his wits, he said that this girl had come above his head and assailed him. When he had
Later than this the minister's horse was found dead in the stable at Muli, and the folks there said that it was all black and swollen.
These are the most remarkable doings of the ghost at Garpsdal, according to the evidence of Sir Saemund, Magnus, Gudrun, and all the household at Garpsdal, all of whom will confirm their witness with an oath, and aver that no human being could have been so invisible there by day and night, but rather that it was some kind of spirit that did the mischief. From the story itself it may be seen that neither Magnus nor any other person could have accomplished the like, and all the folk will confirm this, and clear all persons in the matter, so far as they know. In this form the story was told to me, the subscriber, to Samuel Egilsson and Bjarni Oddsson, by the minister himself and his household, at Garpsdal, 28th May, 1808. That this is correctly set down, after what the minister Sir Saemund related to me, I witness here at Stad on Reykjanes, 7th June, 1808.
Notwithstanding this declaration, the troubles at Garpsdal were attributed by others to Magnus, and the name of the "Garpsdale Ghost" stuck to him throughout his life. He was alive in 1862, when Jon Arnason's volume was published.
These modern instances lead up to "the best story in the world," the old Icelandic tale of Glam.
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Purpose: Understanding variations in physical activity patterns is important for planning health interventions. This study describes age-related change in physical activity in 903 rural Hispanic and non-Hispanic white (NHW) adults age 55–80.
Methods: The Physical Activity History assessed 13 categories of productive and recreational activity during the past year with up to four assessments per participant from 1987 to 1998.
Results: The most common activities were walking and home maintenance/gardening. Productive and recreational physical activity levels were lower in women than men (P < 0.0001), and within each gender group Hispanics had lower levels of both activity types than NHW (P values less than 0.05). In men, productive activity steadily declined with age in NHW and Hispanics. Recreational activity increased slightly until age 63, then decreased after age 70. In women, productive activity initially stayed stable then decreased in NHW after age 63, and in Hispanics it decreased at younger ages before stabilizing after age 70. Recreational activity levels decreased steadily with age in all women, with a steeper rate of decline in NHW than Hispanics. In both ethnic groups, activity levels were lower in diabetics than nondiabetics, except for recreational activity in women where levels did not differ by diabetes status.
Conclusions: The most common activities were similar to other studies of older adults, both recreational and productive activities contributed to total activity, and physical activity decreased in all gender–ethnic subgroups with age. Hispanic women reported the lowest activity levels. Interventions to maintain or increase recreational activity may need to target women at an earlier age than men.
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MERCED -- American Rivers, a national river conservation group, called attention to the Merced River on Tuesday by naming it on the "most endangered rivers" list for 2013.
Steve Rothert, California regional director with American Rivers, said the Merced River was mentioned because of a proposed reservoir expansion project.
The $40 million venture would expand reservoir capacity by up to 70,000 acre-feet by raising the spillway as much as 10 feet at its main storage reservoir, Lake McClure.
The project, supported by legislation from Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, and Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, would remove protections provided by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act from part of the Merced River.
The legislation would allow the expansion project to be studied, but it would still need federal approval.
Currently, more than 120 miles of the Merced River are protected. However, the legislation proposes moving the protected boundary about a half-mile upstream from where it flows into Lake McClure, allowing the reservoir to store more water during wet years.
If approved, the proposal would be the first time a Wild and Scenic boundary has been changed, Rothert said, and would set a harmful precedent nationwide.
"What is supposed to be permanent protection by the Wild and Scenic Act is no longer protected," Rothert said. "The legislation would make a change to what's supposed to be a permanent boundary before MID has determined that it's a viable project."
The Merced Irrigation District officials said Tuesday the project would only affect about 1,800 feet of the Merced River.
"This bill is narrowly focused on Merced River and only affects a very small portion of it," said Mike Jensen, MID spokesman. "And all that MID is asking for is the opportunity to present its best case for this project to proceed."
Jensen said the legislation allows the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority to review the project, and it would ultimately require the commission's approval.
"All the legislation does is allow FERC the authority to review the project," he said. "But in no way does it change the outcome of anything and we're open to discussing these issues."
But Rothert said the project threatens the Limestone Salamander, a species that is fully protected by state law, because the extra water would periodically flood about a half-mile of the Merced River.
"Biologists believe if the reservoir were changed by raising the spillway by 10 feet, it would flood out the salamanders," he noted.
According to Jensen, that issue would be among others considered in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's review. "It would be reviewed before we could proceed with the project," he said.
Rothert questioned whether the project is viable for MID customers.
"We're not aware of an analysis of the full cost of the project and the cost of the water that would be produced by it," he said.
However, Jensen said that agriculture is a third of the economy in Merced County, and that the project would provide water to growers during dry years.
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Where's the XP Installer's Undo?
A Windows 2000 hard disk got clobbered by the XP installer and is "unallocated". What are my next steps? [more inside]
It's too late for a witty title. Please forgive me and help fix this thing
I have these two "folders" in my C drive that are just two of my external hard drives. I would either like them gone or to be given a really good reason to keep them. [more inside]
How do I boot off of someone else's internal hard drive on my laptop?
Running XP on my computer, off of someone else's internal hard drive [more inside]
Backup solutions?
Best HD imaging software/solution? One large external USB2.0 HD, would like to image the primary partition of several XP computers. [more inside]
How to get my hard drive to recognize other drives.
I have two computer hard drives installed onto one machine, and no CD for the first hard drive. The computer doesn't recognize USB ports nor the DVD drive on one of the hard drives. How can I fix that? [more inside]
Standard new PC blues
Various quandaries in building a new PC [more inside]
Why is my harddrive empty?
My windows didn't want to boot up, so I bought a new hard disc installed Windows on it and made the old one slave. The old hard disc reads as completely empty. Why? [more inside]
I want to use my Vista CD as skeet.
I (apparently) messed up my partition, and now Windows thinks my hard drive is half the size it actually is. Help. [more inside]
XP unusably slow after STOP errors and running checkdisk - what's going on?
So it's come to this - I see no other option than to ask a "help me fix my PC" question. After some troubleshooting the STOP errors seem to have been resolved, XP now boots successfully but is excruciating slow to the point of being unusable. Details and specs below the fold. [more inside]
Too many files?
Is it possible for Windows 2000/XP (or more properly, an NTFS disk volume) to "collapse" under the weight of too many files? [more inside]
harddrive question
TechSupportFilter: having problems with an ata harddrive [more inside]
Watch my harddrive
How can I watch what is being written to my hard-drive? [more inside]
Failed disk drive data recovery
DIY data recovery from failed disk drive: what low level diagnostics can I run? [more inside]
how can i recover my data?
i lost a partition in a reformat, but the data is still on my harddrive. i want to get the data off. i have r-studio, but not enough disk space on the existing partition to put the other data on it, and i thought i shouldn't create a new partition to put the data on, as that could mess up remaining data. i don't have an external harddrive. is there any way i can safely get the data off? thanks! [more inside]
adding a drive
Why does adding a third drive to my WinXP system cause the error "NTLDR is missing" upon subsequent boot? In the past it's worked fine like this. [more inside]
iPod newbie on Windows XP needs help...
iPod newbie on Windows XP needs help... [more inside]
Dead computer, locked hard drive?
My wife's computer died (autopsy pending). I took her hard drive out, put it in an Adaptec external enclosure, and hooked it to my machine via USB. It runs fine and I can see the directory tree, but it won't let me access the important stuff under her profile in Documents and Settings -- just says "Access Denied." Is there any way around this? [more inside]
Setting up my new HDD
What should I do with my new hard drive? [more inside]
Can I force this Lacie firewire drive to format as FAT32?
I've just bought a Lacie 160 gigabyte firewire drive. It's to be plugged into a Windows XP machine, but also to be written to and read by a Mac OSX machine. I want to format it with the FAT32 file system, but Windows won't let me. Is there a way to force the drive to format as FAT32? [More inside...] [more inside]
Is there a way to fix critical structure errors on my Seagate hard drive?
Yet another boring tech question: my main hard drive died on me. It's a Seagate, so I ran their diagnostic tool and it tells me I have 2 critical structure errors. What does this mean? Is there a way to fix it, or do I have to reformat, or worse, toss it out? Vielen Dank!
Compaq Presario with Phoenix BIOS Boot Error: "Error Loading OS"
IDE hard drive conundrum: "Error loading OS" (more inside) [more inside]
Help me recover my documents after partitioning!
I just did a full WinXP reinstall. In the process, I took an 80 gig drive which was partitioned to 10/30/40 gig partitions and repartitioned it to 10/10/20/15/25 partitions. Unfortunately, that 40 gig partition held my "My Documents" holding a bunch of Word documents spanning the years and a lot of digital photos that are irreplaceable.
I've tried a few file recovery programs with limited success (recovered around 20% of my files) however I think the problem is the repartitions have split a lot of the files across two or more partitions. Is there a way I can recombine these partitions and try the file recovery programs again??
I've tried a few file recovery programs with limited success (recovered around 20% of my files) however I think the problem is the repartitions have split a lot of the files across two or more partitions. Is there a way I can recombine these partitions and try the file recovery programs again??
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Windows XP question... My parents computer is set up that most items are stored on a 20 GB harddrive (or possibly a partition- listed as c:) while they have 100 GB available on d:... When I install software, is it perfectly acceptable to run it off the D drive, and is there a way to switch the set up so most items save to the d drive? [more inside]
Automatd hard drive backup in XP?
What's a good program to automate backing up one hard drive to another one on the same box in Windows XP?
Something that made a complete backup of certain folders every morning would be ideal.
Something that made a complete backup of certain folders every morning would be ideal.
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Atlanta Concert Ringers will join Southern Crescent Chorale this weekend in PTC
Christmas with the Southern Crescent Chorale has become the official beginning of the holiday season for many in our community.
Sponsored by Bruce Dickerson of Edward Jones Investments, this year's concert will feature special guests, the Atlanta Concert Ringers (www.theatlantaconcertringers.org). Founded in 2002, The Atlanta Concert Ringers, Inc. is made up of experienced hand bell ringers from throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area. This phenomenal bell choir will dazzle you with unbelievable sounds of the season.
The concert features the Chorale singing holiday favorites such as "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," "Joy to the World," and "Jesus, Jesus Rest Your Head."
In addition, the Oak Grove Elementary choir, Brave Harmony, will perform presenting the wonder of Christmas through children's voices.
Join us for a special holiday gift to the community featuring the subtle musical nuances for which the Chorale has become known.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors (60 and over).Purchase tickets from any Chorale member, at Occasionally Yours on the square in Fayetteville, at the Fayetteville Library, or at the door.
Christmas with the Southern Crescent Chorale, will be presented at 3 p.m. at Peachtree City United Methodist Church on Robinson Road Sunday, Dec. 2.


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Finding Immigrant Ancestors in Passenger Arrivals
Whether it's around the corner or across the country, relocating to a new home is a memorable event in our lives. There are always trials and tribulations that come with moving, but when we compare it to what many of our immigrant ancestors went through, not being able to find the can opener for a few weeks pales in comparison.
For many, leaving home meant saying goodbye to family members, knowing that they would never see some of them again. In some cases, parents left their children for extended periods to get established in their new home and raise the necessary funds to send for them. Embarking on a sometimes hazardous voyage, moving to a foreign land, and beginning life anew requires a special kind of courage.
Passenger arrival records are highly valued by family historians not only for the information they may include, but also for what they represent—that decision by an immigrant to leave the old world behind and thus, set a new course for themselves and their descendants. The trick is in locating the records. Here are some tips to help find the arrival record for your immigrant ancestor.
Search Multiple Ports of Entry
Many a search has been thrown by the inherited story that an ancestor came through Ellis Island. While close to 22 million immigrants did pass through the famous immigration station, many arrived through other U.S. ports, and through Canada, which was often a cheaper route.
Some may have even entered the U.S. more than once. Janos Szucs arrived in the U.S. twice, once through Baltimore in July of 1902, and then again in October of that same year, through Ellis Island. This is a good reminder not to overlook other matches once you do locate an ancestor. You may find that he or she made several trips too.
You can search all of the passenger arrival records that are available at Ancestry.com through the Immigration Collection page here. The search form includes specialized fields for immigration records (e.g., immigration date) that will help you to search for your ancestors more effectively. (Tip: In the upper right corner of the list of matches, select the view "Summarized by category." This allows you to view all of the databases that may contain close matches rather than a mix of records from various collections sorted by relevance. You may find your ancestor hiding behind a slightly altered spelling or some other minor discrepancy.)
If you think perhaps your ancestors came to the U.S. via Canada, you'll want to search the database of Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956 and Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935.
When Did Your Ancestor Arrive?
Often you can learn, or at least estimate your ancestor's arrival date using records found here in the United States. The 1900-1930 U.S. federal censuses ask for the year of immigration for immigrants. In earlier years, look at the place of birth for all family members. This is particularly helpful in records where some children in the family were born in the old country, and some in the U.S. Naturalization and vital records may also include the number of years in the U.S.
Search for Ethnic Names
Back in June, we discussed tools for translating your ancestor's name. This is particularly helpful when you are searching for your ancestor's immigration record, because passenger arrival records were created before they arrived in the U.S.
Can't Catch Them Coming In?
If you haven't been able to locate your ancestor coming in to the U.S., it may still be possible to locate a record of them leaving the old country. Ancestry.com has several collections of emigration records worth exploring. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century Hamburg, Germany, was a popular port of departure for European emigrants and there are currently 5 million emigration records from the port of Hamburg for the years 1850-1934 available on Ancestry.com . While only records from 1885-1914 are indexed, all of the records are browsable and there is also a handwritten index that can help you to locate the records of your ancestors. These records are in German but there are tools available in the German Research Center that can help you to understand the records.
There is also a large database of Swedish Emigration Records at Ancestry.com (in Swedish ). These international databases are available to World Deluxe members.


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