The following is a press release written by GenDisasters.com
Remember Grandma's stories of the tornado in 1912? Then, there was Aunt Tillie's son Earl who drowned in the lake. And, Uncle Milton, wasn't he run over by a train?
How did these events effect your family? When the mill burned down, and great grandpa was out of work, did your family move?
You can find out now, though a new site: http://www.gendisasters.com
GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily.
Organized by location and by disaster, you'll easily be able to tell if the material is transcribed and online, being complied, or compiled and ready for a transcriber. In the "Help Wanted" section, you can sign up to transcribe one article or articles for a whole state or region.
Recently added material includes the Winecoff Hotel Fire in Atlanta, Georgia in 1946 which killed 120 people, and injured dozens more; the Fraterville Mine Explosion in Coal Creek, Tennessee in 1902 where 184 men perished; the East St. Louis, Missouri Tornado in 1871 which killed 6, injured dozens, and left a wake of destruction in its path.
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