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| IU Archives. 1 Jan 1968. |
A double post to start the new year. Today we're cheering on our #1 Indiana Hoosiers football team in the College Football Playoff as they take on Alabama at the Rose Bowl (4pm Eastern on ESPN). Although IU has never won the Rose Bowl game, but they did crush UCLA at the Rose Bowl in the 2024 season. Let the miracle season continue!
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| Source: IU Athletics. IU v Ohio State, 2025. |
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| New York Times. Fireworks in Giza, Egypt. 1 Jan 2026. |
Happy New Year and welcome 2026! The New York Times has a great collection of photos tonight from celebrations worldwide. We've had a fun evening at home, picking up pizza from our favorite neighborhood spot, enjoying some tasty beverages, and watching coverage from celebrations around the world while also watching the Miami v Ohio State college football playoff game.
My post from New Years Day last year is worth repeating here. I'm continuing to follow the path and maybe there will be new discoveries along the way. Here's to broadening horizons and bridges in 2026!
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| New York Times. Athens. 1 Jan 2026. |
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| New York Times. Dubai. 1 Jan 2026. |
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| New York Times. Year of the Horse in Busan, S. Korea. 1 Jan 2026. |
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| Photo by Patrick Jones. Belfast. 27 June 2025. |
Cheers to 2025, bring on 2026. Sláinte is health in Irish, used as "cheers". Many cheers for New Years Eve.
Some errors on my part pushed the timing on this post on Allison's maternal line for the Schwarzlose family back to 3 December 2025 instead of next week. With Sophia taking the mtDNA test before returning to campus, this result will give a maternal line path for her, Allison, Allison's Mom, and Memaw all the way back to Dorothea Sophia Gagelmann, who was born about 1807 in Saxony, Germany.
I am hoping this result will be as interesting for them as learning about some of the mtDNA results on my side of the tree has been this year. Her result will not arrive until likely Spring 2026.
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| Google Maps. The road between Rayón and Ures, Sonora. |
Maria Concepcion Amado was born in the village of Rayón, Sonora around 1823. At some point she likely made her way to the town of Ures, which was the capital of Sonora in 1823. Ures became a city in 1838 and reclaimed its spot as the capital of Sonora between 1838 and 1842, and again from 1847 to 1879. I know Vicente Campuzano was living in Ures with his first family in 1847, as his daughter Jesus Campuzano was born there.
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| Concepcion, 1848. Made in Ideogram. |
Travel between the two towns during this time was most likely on horseback, by mule or on foot with pack animals carrying goods. Rayón was a municipality in the district of Ures, so trade between the two locations would have been common.
