Again, These may be important sources for you and yours to look up, explore and discover what was going on "time" wise in your ancestors lives. All of the following subjects can be found by going to Ask.com and typing in the keywords below. For those of you with American Native Bloodlines there are many time lines and sites that can be added for your personal use. Dianne The New World <A HREF="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/VirtualTour/Tour/First/Native/index.html">Native Cultures of the Americas</A> <A HREF="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/arctic/html/ancient.html">Northern Clans, Northern Traces</A> <A HREF="http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/">Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex03enco.htm">American Encounters</A> <A HREF="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/garden/">Seeds of Change</A> Colonial Era and Revolutionary War (1607-1783) <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/springer">Colonial Life: You Be the Historian</A> <A HREF="http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/july4.html">Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/02wash.htm">George Washington at War</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex05gunb.htm">Gunboat Philadelphia</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/col/age/index.htm">The Age of Revolution</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/timeline/pres_era/3_654.html">The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden "Revolution and the New Nation"</A> <A HREF="http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/july4.html">Spotlight: Biography, Founding Fathers</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/gw/index.htm">George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/franklin/index.htm">Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America</A> A New Nation: Exploration and Expansion (1783-1860) <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex01rev.htm">After the Revolution,</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/eiPac1.html">Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, 1793</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2timeline.html">Early Industrialization Timeline</A> from <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/index.html">Whole Cloth: Discovering Science & Technology through American Textile History</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/lewclark.htm">Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806</A> <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/t2go/1lw/index.html">The Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/starflag.htm">Star-Spangled Banner and the War of 1812</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/cherokee.htm">Trail of Tears: Forced Migration of Cherokee Indians 1838-1839</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/col/amistad/index.htm">The Amistad Case, February 22, 1841</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/1846/index.htm">1846: Portrait of the Nation</A> <A HREF="http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Smithson-to-Smithsonian/intro.html">Founding of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm">Seneca Falls Convention for Women's Rights, 1848</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/postal/gold/asprecious.html">As Precious as Gold</A> and <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/postal/gold/gold2.html">Stories from the Gold Rush</A> <A HREF="http://educate.si.edu/migrations/stamps/stampind.html">United States Postage Stamps: Celebrating America's History</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex10engn.htm">Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790 - 1860</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/morse.htm">Samuel F.B. Morse invents the telegraph, 1837</A> ** <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex03enco.htm">American Encounters</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/col/pres/">Hall of Presidents</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/col/pres/">Presidential Timeline</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb/">Story of the Star-Spangled Banner</A> <A HREF="http://photo2.si.edu/infoage/infoage.html">Invention of the telegraph</A> marks the start of the Information age <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2timeline.html">Eli Whitney patents</A> cotton gin, 1793 ** Civil War (1861-1865) <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/horse.htm">"Winchester," General Sheridan's War Horse</A> <A HREF="http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/civilwar1.html">Spotlight: Biography, Civil War</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/civilwar.htm">Civil War Reading List</A> <A HREF="http://smithsonianassociates.si.edu/cw/">Civil War Studies at the Smithsonian</A> <A HREF="http://civilwar.si.edu/">[email protected]</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/bradindx.html#three">Mathew Brady's Civil War Period Portraits</A> <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/johnson/lincoln.html">Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/timeline/pres_era/3_656.html">The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden "Civil War and Reconstruction"</A> Reconstruction, Urbanization, and Industrialization (1865-1889) <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/07sitin.htm">13th Amendment outlaws slavery, 1865</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex09elec.htm">Hall of Electricity</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/lemelson/edison/html/thomas_alva_edison.html">Innovative Lives, Thomas Alva Edison</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops">Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex33ccn.htm">Communities in a Changing Nation: The Promise of 19th-Century America</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/05ed.htm">Edison's Timeline of</A> Invention The Progressive Era (1890-1913) <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex14parl.htm">From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890-1925</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/powering/prehist/prehist.htm">Origin of Electrical Power</A> <A HREF="http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal100/wright1903.html">Wright Brothers fly the first successful airplane, December 17, 1903</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt, Icon of the American Century</A> <A HREF="http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Make-the-Dirt-Fly/">"Make the Dirt Fly" Building the Panama Canal</A> <A HREF="http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal100/gal100.html">Milestones of Flight</A> Timeline World War I and the Jazz Age (1914-1928) <A HREF="http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal206/gal206.html">Great War in the Air, World War I</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/cherami.htm">Cher Ami, World War I Carrier Pigeon</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/earlycars.htm">The American Automobile</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex11fact.htm">Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940</A> The Great Depression (1929-1939) <A HREF="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues97/apr97/banks.html">"Bang! went the doors of every bank in America"</A> <A HREF="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/may99/object_may99.html">The National Recovery Administration</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/inf/edu/perkins.htm">Frances Perkins: New Deal Stateswoman and Labor Reformer</A> <A HREF="http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/oralhist/transnda.htm">New Deal and the Arts Oral History Interviews</A> <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/fair.html">Posters American Style: The 1939 World's Fair</A> World War II (1941-1945) <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/freedoms.html">FDR's Four Freedoms Speech January 6, 1941 </A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex15wwgi.htm">G.I. World War II</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/folkways/40021.htm">That's Why We're Marching: World War II and The American Folk Song Movement</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory">Produce for Victory, Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/youmus/ex04unio.htm">A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/postal/learnmore/vmail.html">V-Mail, "Victory" Mail from World War II</A> <A HREF="http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal103/">The Enola Gay drops atomic bomb, Aug. 6, 1945</A> <A HREF="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/may99/object_may99.html">National Industrial</A> Recovery Act June 16, 1933 <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory">Posters on the American</A> Home Front (1941-45) The Modern Era (1945-present) <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/marshall/index.htm">The Marshall Plan, George C. Marshall, Soldier of Peace</A> Cold War (1945-1991) <A HREF="http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/korean.html">Spotlight: Biography: Korean War, 1950-1953</A> <A HREF="http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal114/">Space Race</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/">Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War</A> <A HREF="http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/index.htm">Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s</A> <A HREF="http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r821.htm">Salk polio vaccine released for use, April 12, 1955</A> The 1960s<IMG SRC="http://www.si.edu/re <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/07sitin.htm">Woolworth's Sit-in, Greensboro, NC, February 1, 1960</A> <A HREF="http://www.si.edu/i+d/debate.arc.html">Nixon-Kennedy Debates, 1960</A> <A HREF="http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/labor.html">César Chávez establishes the National Farm Workers Association, 1962</A> <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/mlk.html">Posters American Style: The March on Washington, August 28, 1963</A> <A HREF="http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/attm/enter.html">Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 20, 1969</A> <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/moon.html">Posters American Style: The Moon Landing</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw">A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1965-1971</A> <A HREF="http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/vietnam.html">Posters American Style: The Vietnam War</A> The 1970s <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/maroon">Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/powering/hirsh3/history.htm">Energy Crises of the 1970's</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/08apple.htm">Apple I computer designed, 1976</A> The Late 20th-Century <A HREF="http://photo2.si.edu/legacy/legacy.html">Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedicated November 13, 1982</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/powering/">Deregulation of Electrical Power: Powering a Generation of Change</A> <A HREF="http://americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights/">Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is signed into law, 1990</A> <FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#f Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefather's bones. [Luther Standing Bear, Lakota]