I got the info about the Edsel ad from The Red Cloud Chief (Red Cloud,
Nebraska) newspaper - they have a column called "Down Thru The Years" where
they go back to the old newspapers and print items from them each week.
I got the 1904 data in an e-mail. I just now googled 1904 statistics and found
this type of data on infoplease.com/year/1904.html. You can go backwards and
forwards by year at this site. Things are broken out into World Events/US
Events/Economics/Sports/Entertainment/
Science/Deaths.
There are probably many more sites with this type of information.
Sharon
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Keener
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unique events - YEAR EVENT - timeline type info
That's some very interesting information, Sharon. I would love to have info
like that in the form that you displayed here. I have Personal Historian but
its information is not as broad as what you've shown.
Thanks,
Jim
On 10/7/07, Sharon Perdue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just added an event called "Year Event". Currently, I am using this for
things of interest I have found for specific years. These are timeline type
events, that I thought were interesting or fun, and wanted them in each
report I do for the records to which I have attached them, without having to
add a timeline report.
Linking to everyone with a birth year of 1957, born in US - announcement
that appeared in newspapers across the United States that said:
"The birth of a new car, the Edsel, is announced by the Ford Motor Company
of Dearborn, Michigan. You are cordially invited to see this new addition
to
the Ford Family of Fine Cars at your nearest Edsel dealer."
Linking to someone who was born (individual event) or married (marriage
event) in 1904:
The average life expectancy in the US was 47 years.
Only 14% of the homes in the US had a bathtub.
Only 8% of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New
York City cost $11.00.
There were only 8,000 cars in the US, and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The
maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated
than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the
21st most populous state in the Union. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada,
was 30!
Sharon
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