Imagine how much unanticipated historical perspectives might become uncovered if everyone uploaded paraphenelia of long deceased ancestors like this; after indexing, and searched as one hyper-amalgamated crowdsourced knowledge graph, can show who was where doing what in say the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s in a way that mainstream history might fall short of capturing.
As a byproduct of wandering southern Indiana, I’ve taken several shallow dives into the history of people whose names I’ve found in cemeteries, or the counties I’ve explored, and it’s addictive. There are so many interesting stories out there, from the attorney general who summed up the evidence presented at a trial as “the victim lynched himself and his fellow thieves in jail” to the couple with 6 male children who…
Re: Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
#31Thanks and thank you for sharing the experience about diving into the history of those names from gravestones!