Udrea Research

10/28/2024

Doing some research in Oklahoma City and can't wait to start my trip back to Mid Atlantic states. See family first time in 9 years.

06/17/2021

Have you ever thing this question while you are doing your own research? The website Literary Hub puts a very good article about this topic. The title of the article is called "Why Are We All So Obsessed with Genealogy?"

Here is a link to the article on Literary Hub website:

America has become a nation obsessed with genealogy. The mere existence of so many genealogical materials digitized, indexed, and searchable online, and our communal drive to find them, comes from …

01/19/2020

On this day in 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted into William Frantz Elementary School by a team of U.S. Deputy Marshals, desegregating the public school system of New Orleans.

11/19/2019

The mortal remains of Philadelphia's Monument Cemetery. The second Victorian garden cemetery established in the city after Laurel Hill (1839). Originally called Pere-Lachaise, after the first ever rural garden cemetery in Paris, it was renamed Monument Cemetery. In 1956, it was destroyed by Temple University and the City of Philadelphia; all the monuments and headstones were dumped into the Delaware River (under what is now the Betsy Ross Bridge).

My photo shows what the embankment looks like after you've climbed down twelve feet of granite grave markers. 28,000 people were buried here, and I don't know how many markers were removed to the river.

On my third trip to the site, I transcribed all the names and dates I could read off upright headstones and added them to the "FindAGrave.com" site. You can read these 25 or so names on the blog I posted: http://thecemeterytraveler.blogspot.com/2012/03/beachcombing-in-hell-gravestones-of.html