Hi Marge: Thank you for the link for Washington. As a Canadian, my knowledge of American history was very dim - one of the reasons for subscribing to Massachusetts Moments. My knowledge of Eastern Canadian history is also rather limited and having ancestors who settled in Acadia, 1750 Nova Scotia as early 1700 American Colonies, am trying to improve my understanding of what went on. Slow process. Have book marked the Washington site. Have a cousin out there and will forward to her. Lauraine > > From: Marge Reid <[email protected]> > Date: 2008/11/09 Sun PM 03:50:17 CST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] Great Boston Fire > > Many thanks for posting the URL to Mass Moments - > http://www.massmoments.org/ What a great way to add historical interest > to our family history narrative (e.g., "our immigrant ancestor arrived > in Boston a few days before The Great Boston Fire"). I've also > subscribed to the site mailing list that will send me daily notices re: > Mass Moments. > > Here in Washington State we have a site much like Mass Moments. Called > History Link, it started out as pretty much a Seattle-centered project, > but has expanded its scope to include ALL of Washington State. Visit > http://www.historylink.org/ and be sure to bookmark the page if you have > ancestors or collateral kin who lived in WA. Folks can subscribe to be > notified WEEKLY about historical events in WA and the rest of the US. > > I'm curious - do you List Folks know of OTHER such websites that have a > "Today in History" approach to local, state or provincial history? > > All too often we ignore those little extras ("history stuff") that can > sometimes provide clues as to what our ancestors were doing or > experiencing at a particular point in time. > > Regards, > > Marge - born in MA, raised in MA and growing mold in WA