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This website is meant for family historians. Readers will find information about how people and communities were impacted by natural phenomena – or Mother Nature. Blog posts will present examples of actual events and how families coped with them. Links will be added to websites and articles that may assist genealogists looking for specific data about certain areas.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Article in Going In-Depth: New Madrid Earthquakes


Read my latest article, Families in Peril: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12, in Going In-Depth magazine, published by The In-Depth Genealogist.

In the article I discuss the disaster that impacted people and communities in Arkansas, Kentucky and Missouri between December 1811 and February 1812. Property damage was severe. Many families were forced to abandon their homes which were inundated by the Mississippi River waters as channels were shifted and flood-waters inundated farms and towns.


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