No close family anniversaries. On this date in 1789, the First United States Congress approved twelve articles of amendment to the US Constitution, ten of which were eventually ratified, to become what we now know as the Bill of Rights. This session of the Congress met in Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, later known as Old City Hall, as in this illustration.
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- Ancestral Sites in Norway
- Ancient History I: The First Millennium
- Ancient History II: 1000-1250
- Ancient History III: 1250-1500
- Early, Early Americans
- Anne Larsdatter Skurdal (1801-1890)
- Anne Samuelsdatter Bjerke (1845-1885)
- Samuel Jorgenson, AKA Samuelson(!)
- Ole Larson (1841-1908)
- Dan and Lillian Myers
- Myers, Drayer, Colby, Sprung: Back To the Revolution!
- Isaac Larson (1884-1969)
- Lovell & Reatha Larson
- Helene Olsdatter (1854-1927)
- Marte Bø: Great-Grandma, Murderess
- Philip Myers (1759-1835)
- Wyoming Captive
- Michael Myers (1768-1815)
- Smith Larson (1877-1922), WWI Vet
- Tracing the Slettens
- Martha Bennett (m. Myers, 1763- 1851)
- William Drayer (1859-1937)