What a fascinating site. A (non) ancestor with the same name made papers all over the country as 'an evil gypsy suspected of murdering a tinker who lived under a tree'. But under this story was a more interesting piece from France where a badger attacked a dog and was killed by two dog owners. As 'badgers hair makes the finest artists brushes' they were going to make the best of their prize when another badger appeared and attacked causing men and dog to retreat. The new badger then towed the dead one along the lane and into the village square where it lay across it defending it from the locals. By its actions the locals decided the second badger was not a badger at all but a witch and so burned it. This was in the early 1800s - amazing.
--- On Mon, 12/15/08, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nick <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] News from 19 century OT To: [email protected] Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 8:17 PM marie heaster wrote: > Hi Nick, > > It definitely helps to have a more unusual surname. My first quick basic > search came up with almost 700 vague references - such as south > eastern-(taking the h easter) I next tried the surname within quotation marks > and asked it to sort by most relevant and then chose those hits of 200+ that > were in the south (although I did just try one for fun in Ireland and came up > with a Heaster arriving in Dublin by ship) > > And my first message should read "we have no info" - was pleased at actually > finding a possible lead I missed the no. > > Good luck with your search. I've got an unusual surname - the problem is that it's a very short one. On the Internet I get foiled in searches by all the American attorneys, and in these ancient newspapers it's OCR bugs that are stopping me. Ah, well. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
